allow vs suppress

allow

verb
  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

suppress

verb
  • To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression. 

  • To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained. 

  • To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue. 

  • To prevent publication. 

  • To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others. 

  • To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind. 

  • To stop a flow or stream. 

  • To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal. 

How often have the words allow and suppress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )