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Definition of Suppresser

1. Noun. Someone who suppresses. "Dictators are suppressors of free speech"

2. Noun. A gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene).

3. Noun. An electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppresser

suppositiousness supposititious suppositor suppositories suppositors suppositum supposively supposta supposure supposures

suppress suppressant suppressants suppressed suppresser (current term) suppresser gene suppresses suppresseth suppressibility suppressible

suppressing suppressio veri suppression suppressions suppressive suppressive fire suppressiveness suppressor suppressor gene

Literary usage of Suppresser

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (1998)
"() first demonstrated the utility of this approach by inactivating the p53 tumour suppresser gene in mice. Animals with no functional p53 developed normally ..."

2. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"113. title in the plaintiff; and the jury were k On an ejectment involving large directed that the suppresser and the estates in Ireland, the question being ..."

3. Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies by William Malone Baskervill (1897)
"The artist cannot be a suppresser of truth, or an ignorer of facts, and the omission of the negro, so curious and marked that it must have been of ..."

4. National Drug Control Policy: Interdiction Efforts in Florida and the edited by J. Dennis Hastert (2001)
"... of wine and a small arsenal of firearms (at least one of which had been defaced), a sound suppresser and ammunition as well as a pound of marijuana. ..."

5. The Centennial History of the Harvard Law School, 1817-1917 by Harvard Law School Association (1886- ) (1918)
"... and if by nature, as some indications suggested, subject to impulse, an habitual suppresser of impulse, always cautious, and therefore always exact. ..."

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