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Noun

The act or instance of suppressing.
The state of being suppressed.

Related terms

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Suppression \Sup*pres"sion\, n. [L. suppressio: cf. F.
suppression.]
1. The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed;
repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection,
or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of
evidence, and the like.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Med.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or
excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in
contradiction to retention, which signifies that the
secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.
--Quain.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Gram.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression;
detention; retention; obstruction.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet suppression
n 1: (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a
plant
2: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing
from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the
newspaper" [syn: curtailment]
3: forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority;
"the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the
rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: crushing,
quelling, stifling]
4: (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable
thoughts or desires [syn: inhibition]

Moby Dictionary
Eighteenth Amendment , Prohibition Party , Volstead Act , abolishment ,
abolition , aloofness , annihilation , annulment , arrest , arrestation ,
arrestment , backwardness , bamboo curtain , ban , barrier of secrecy ,
bashfulness , blackout , blankness , block , blockage , blocking ,
bottling up , breaking , ceasing , censoring , censorship , cessation ,
check , checking , chilliness , choking , choking off , clogging ,
closing up , closure , coldness , concealing , concealment , conquering ,
constraint , constriction , contraband , control , controlling ,
conversion , coolness , corking up , crackdown , cramp , crushing ,
curtain , defense mechanism , delay , denial , deracination ,
detachment , detainment , detention , disallowance , discontinuation ,
discreetness , discretion , distance , domestication , elimination ,
embargo , end , ending , eradication , exclusion , expressionlessness ,
extermination , extinction , extinguishment , extirpation , fixation ,
foot-dragging , forbiddance , forbidden fruit , forbidding , frigidity ,
frostiness , gentling , guardedness , halt , halting , hampering ,
hiding , hindering , hindrance , holdback , holding , holding in ,
holdup , humbling , humiliation , hush-up , iciness , impassiveness ,
impassivity , impediment , impersonality , inaccessibility , index ,
index expurgatorius , index librorum prohibitorum , inhibition ,
injunction , interdict , interdicting , interdiction , interdictum ,
interference , interruption , introversion , iron curtain ,
ironbound security , keeping , law , let , liquidation , locking in ,
maintenance , mental block , modesty , negation , negativism , no-no ,
nuisance value , nullification , oath of secrecy , obstructing ,
obstruction , obstructionism , occlusion , official secrecy ,
opposition , pall , precluding , preclusion , prehension , preservation ,
prevention , prohibiting , prohibition , prohibitory injunction ,
proscription , psychological block , purge , put-down , putting down ,
quashing , quelling , quenching , quieting , reduction , refusal ,
rejection , remoteness , repression , reserve , reservedness ,
resistance , restraining , restraint , restriction ,
restrictive covenants , retainment , retardation , retardment ,
retention , retentiveness , retentivity , reticence , reticency ,
retirement , rooting out , ruling out , seal of secrecy , security ,
setback , silencing , smashing , smothering , snuffing out , squashing ,
squeeze , squelching , standoffishness , statute , stifling , stop ,
stopping , stranglehold , strangling , strangulation , stricture ,
subdual , subduedness , subduing , sublimation , suffocating ,
suffocation , sumptuary laws , surcease , symbolization , taboo ,
taming , tenacity , terminating , termination , throttling ,
treading down , unaffability , unapproachability , uncongeniality ,
undemonstrativeness , unexpansiveness , uprooting , veil ,
veil of secrecy , voiding , withdrawal , withdrawnness , withholding ,
wraps , zoning , zoning laws