English-French translations for suppress

contenir
étouffer
On a par ailleurs bien pris soin de ménager la possibilité d'étouffer les avis anticonformistes. In addition, care has evidently been taken to ensure that non-conformist opinions can be suppressed. Elles ne devraient pas avoir à se battre constamment contre ceux qui tentent d’étouffer ou de nier leurs souffrances. They should not have to fight constantly against those who seek to suppress or to deny their suffering. Sur quel texte se fonde un principe qui vous permet d'étouffer le droit d'expression du médiateur et de soumettre celui-ci à de telles exigences ? Where is the basis for a principle in accordance with which you could suppress this right and make such demands upon the ombudsman?

réduire
réprimer
Et il ne s'agit pas de réprimer. And it is not a question of suppression. Aucune nation ne peut indéfiniment réprimer son désir de liberté. The desire for freedom of any nation cannot be suppressed forever. La devise européenne ne doit pas devenir, dans les faits, «surveiller, suspecter, réprimer». Europe’s motto must not become, , ‘supervise, suspect, suppress’.
suffoquer
supprimer
L'objectif principal était de supprimer et de détruire l'Ukraine en tant que nation. The main aim was to suppress and destroy Ukraine as a nation. L'histoire a trop souvent montré que les efforts tendant à supprimer l'apprentissage des langues n'entraînaient que mépris. History has showed repeatedly that efforts to suppress languages breed contempt. C'est quelque-chose que personne ne possède et que personne ne peut supprimer, ni nous ni personne d'autre. It is something that nobody owns and nobody can suppress, neither us nor anybody else.

To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue
To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression
To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind
To prevent publication
To stop a flow or stream
To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained
To hold in place, to keep low

Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
I struggled to suppress my smile.
He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.
The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.

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