Return and Suppress

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Return

Return verb - To bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place.
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Antonyms for Return
Suppress is an antonym for return in answer topic.
Nearby Words: returned, returning, returnable, returnee, returner

Suppress

Suppress verb - To keep from being publicly known.
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Synonyms for Suppress
Antonyms for Suppress
Return is an antonym for suppress.
Nearby Words: suppression, suppressing, suppressor, suppressant
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Common collocations

ability return ability suppress ability
power return power suppress power
everyone return everyone suppress everyone
feelings return feelings suppress feelings
Other words: powers, memories.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / The Elite Squad Tropa 2 shows an example of an attempt to return to their roots, when deployed to suppress the prison riot... except that rather than control the situation, Nascimento suggests letting the criminals kill each other and then mop up once they're spent.
    Source: Film / The Elite Squad
  • His cover story ends with Eneru and his robots readying up to return back to Earth, indicating a larger importance not only to Eneru, but also connects the winged people of the series to the Moon and to the ancient history the World Government tries to suppress at all costs.
    Source: Innocuously Important Episode
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