Suprimir means ‘to remove/abolish’. It is a regular -ir verb: suprimo (present), suprimí (preterite), suprimido (past participle), suprimiendo (gerund).
Suprimir in use
El ayuntamiento ha suprimido dos líneas de autobúsThe council has axed two bus routes
Suprime este párrafo, que sobraDelete this paragraph: it isn't needed
La empresa suprimirá cien puestos de trabajoThe company will cut a hundred jobs
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Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
False friend: suprimir means to remove or cancel something. To suppress a feeling or a protest is usually reprimir.
More tenses
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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