supprime

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See also: supprimé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French supprimer, from Latin supprimere, supprimō (to press down, suppress), from sub- (under, down) +‎ premō (to press).

Verb

supprime (third-person singular simple present supprimes, present participle suppriming, simple past and past participle supprimed)

  1. (rare) To suppress (in various senses).
    • 1914, Speltz, Alexander, The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles: With Coloured Plates From Own Paintings in Water Colours, Leipzig: K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium, Second Part: Middle Ages, page 20:
      This triumph of orthodoxy, however, was not able to stop the impuls of the new renaissance, and the taste for a literary and profane art, that had been always supprimed by orthodoxy in Byzantium, prevailed.

References

French

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -im

Verb

supprime

  1. inflection of supprimer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

supprime

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of supprimō

Portuguese

Verb

supprime

  1. inflection of supprimir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative