Words / S / Law

suppress

verb/səˈprɛs/

B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To prevent evidence from being disclosed or admitted at trial.

The defence moved to suppress the confession as the product of an unlawful arrest.

Similar: exclude, withhold, conceal

Topic: Evidence & procedure in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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