EGAVE

suppressor

About 1.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device. A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
  2. noun A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
  3. noun A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
  4. noun A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.

Similar words

suppresser suppressive facilitator moderator mutator extragenic damper silencer inhibitor restrainer

Often followed by

genes t gene cells cell of grid activity protein

Word family

suppressors

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