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Synonyms for suppress

Synonyms for suppress: inhibit and conquer. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for suppress

Interchangeable with suppress in this sense

Audited under suppress's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one suppress carries in that sense.

inhibitverb, in the sense "consciously restrain from showing"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name suppress as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

conquerconquer is a verb in the sense "bring under control by force or authority"

one of these comes from suppress's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseverbTier 4, High CampSocial life

consciously restrain from showing

Suppress a smile.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

inhibit

Same sentence, swapped: Inhibit a smile.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

oppress
harness
wink

Where suppress turns up in the game

suppress is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where suppress is the trap

reduceverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is cut, in the sense "cut down on", so suppress is there to be ruled out.
disregardverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ignore, in the sense "give little or no attention to", and suppress is on the board beside it.

Play suppress

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so suppress reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

suppress is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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