dǎ​yā

suppress

打压 (打壓) dǎ​yā
suppress verb
to suppress, stifle, or clamp down on someone or something through force, authority, or pressure

His political rivals tried to suppress him completely during the election.

drive down verb
to beat down or depress market prices, values, or economic growth

The government has introduced new policies to suppress excessively high housing prices.

Frequency

Written text
7.56 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)