Definition of "suppressing" [suppressing]

• Present participle of suppress. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The economic noose that this will cause will be far superior in suppressing the government because it doesn't have the threat of nuclear war."
• "The irony to "modern scientific medicine" is that the evidence that doctors proudly show that a drug "works" is often actually evidence that the drug is effective in suppressing, not curing, a specific symptom (there are, of course, many exceptions to this general observation, such as antibiotics, but antibiotic drugs create other problems about which this writer and many others have commented already)."
• "Is (was) the school administrator justified therefore in suppressing the rights of the few nonPC high school students?"