Syn. -- Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression; detention;
retention; obstruction.
Sup*press"ive (?), a. Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
Sup*press"or (?), n. [L., hider.] One who suppresses.
Sup*prise" (?), v. t. To surprise. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sup"pu*rant (?), n. (Med.) A suppurative.
Sup"pu*rate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Suppurated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Suppurating.] [L. suppuratus, p. p. of suppurare to suppurate, cause to
suppurate; sub under + pus, puris, matter. See Pus.] To generate pus;
as, a boil or abscess suppurates.
Sup"pu*rate, v. t. To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.
Arbuthnot.
Sup`pu*ra"tion (?), n. [L. suppuratio: cf. F. suppuration.] 1. The act
or process of suppurating.