To destroy, ruin, bring to destruction. Also, in milder sense, to injure, damage, spoil.

transitive. To turn (a vessel, etc.) upside down so as to cover something; gen. to turn or roll over, overturn; to upheave. to whelve over, to…

transitive. To quell or subdue (a disturbance or strong emotion); to calm, appease; to put (fear, suspicion, etc.) at rest.

transitive. To drown, swallow up (in water). Also figurative.

transitive. To put an end to, stifle, suppress (a feeling, action, condition, quality, or other non-material thing). Also (occasionally) with person…

transitive. To bring to nothing; to crush; to destroy; to put down or suppress completely; to stifle (esp. a feeling, idea, scheme, undertaking…

transitive. To quench, allay, satisfy (thirst, hunger, desire, etc.); also, to repress, extinguish (appetite, hatred, anger, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To put an end to, suppress, extinguish (a thing or state of things, esp. a bad or disagreeable one); esp. to put down (an uprising…

To suppress, put down, do away with, destroy, stamp out. Also with adjective complement.

figurative. To drown, immerse, plunge, overwhelm.

With impersonal object: To overcome, subdue, suppress, or put an end to (a feeling, state of things, etc.).

transitive. To stifle, suffocate.

To cast down, put down, quell. Obsolete.

transitive. To put an end to, suppress, or extinguish (a bad or disagreeable thing, situation, or emotion).

transitive. To put an end to (an activity, practice, ideal, institution, etc.) by force or authority; to suppress, crush, quell; to abolish.

transitive. To bring to sudden ruin or destruction; to engulf; to crush; to defeat utterly or conclusively. Also: to overcome or overpower with…

transitive. To overthrow; to bring to ruin. Cf. overwhelm, v. 2. rare.

transitive. To beat or press down; to squash, flatten; to crush. Also intransitive.

To suppress, bring to an end. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To banish or keep hidden (a feeling, thought, desire, etc.) from one's mind; to stop thinking about. Also in later use Psychology: to…

To destroy as if by the exclusion of air; to smother, overwhelm, extinguish. something immaterial, esp. a mental attribute.

intransitive and transitive = quail, v.2 (in various senses).

transitive. To tread heavily and (esp.) injuriously upon; to crush, break down, or destroy by heavy treading; also to trample down, to trample unde…

transitive. To suppress, stamp out (a practice, idea, etc., perceived as a threat to an authority).

To spoil, impair; to overpower, destroy, put an end to. transitive. With an action, state, quality, feeling, etc., as object. Obsolete.

transitive. figurative. To keep (a person, the mind, etc.) in a low or deprived state; to burden, weigh down. Now archaic and rare.

transitive. To break, shatter (rare in physical sense); to break down, crush, destroy; to foil, defeat, frustrate; to cancel, invalidate. Obsolete.

transitive. To suppress; to repress. Obsolete.

transferred. To engulf or bear down like a flood, storm, avalanche, etc.; hence, to involve in destruction or ruin. in immaterial sense.

transitive. To choke or stifle (a person or thing).

transitive. To knock (on the head), destroy, crush, suppress.

To suppress, put an end to; to quell or stifle. rare.

transitive. To extinguish, put out; to suppress, subdue; to quench.

transitive. To hold down; to hold in subjection or under control; to repress. spec. to retain (food, etc.) in one's stomach, without vomiting.

figurative.

transitive. Of a person: to repress or resist (a feeling, thought, or inclination). Now rare.

transitive. To overwhelm, crush.

figurative. Of actions, feelings, etc.: To put down, subdue utterly, extinguish, stamp out.

To put down by wrestling or striving; to suppress, quell.

To suppress or smother any feeling, or aspiration.

figurative with various notions. To prevent the growth or rise of; to hamper or destroy by excessive restrictions; to suppress. Also with off.

In various figurative uses. To destroy, crush, suppress, deprive of vitality, prevent the working or spreading of (a movement, activity, measure…

With down, out (see quots.). rare.

transitive. To make imperceptible or weaken (something, esp. a quality) by greater force or intensity.

transitive. To suppress again.

transitive. To choke, stifle, suffocate. Obsolete.

transitive. To strangle within something; to stifle.

To repress, smother down, as with a choking effort.

in bud (said of plants; cf. in leaf, in flower): budding. in the bud: not yet developed; often figurative = young, immature, ‘in the germ’. to nipor c…

transitive. To deal with in such a way as to confound or overcome completely; to treat or handle roughly or severely; to crush, destroy.

To quash; to suppress or put down; to undo or destroy in a complete or summary manner.

transitive. To subdue, overcome (esp. a fire).

figurative. To smother, ‘hush up’, suppress quietly. Also, to evade, to shirk, to avoid.

transitive. to stamp out: to extinguish (a fire) by trampling on it. Hence, transferred to extirpate (a disease, a heresy, etc.), suppress (a…

transitive. To tread heavily and (esp.) injuriously upon; to crush, break down, or destroy by heavy treading; also to trample down, to trample unde…

transitive. To quell, quash; = squelch, v. 1b.

intransitive. colloquial. To snub or put down (a person); to squash (an idea, a proposal, etc.). Cf. to sit on —— 8 at phrasal verbs 2.

figurative. To squash or crush; to put down or suppress thoroughly or completely. Now chiefly U.S.

To defeat utterly; to crush completely; to overcome, overwhelm, or destroy.

transferred and figurative. To strangle.

transitive. To put an end to, bring to nothing, quash; to refute conclusively (a rumour, report, etc.); to frustrate (a plan or hope).

transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To bring an end to (a feeling or behaviour); to quell.

transitive. To suppress or conceal (a piece of information).

With out. = stamp, v. 3d. Chiefly transferred.

To render useless, inoperative, ineffective, or futile; to deprive of freedom of action or originality; to frustrate, to stifle, to neutralize.