Defenition of the word suppression

• Defenition of the word suppression

  • the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
  • forceful prevention: "suppression of liberal newspapers"; "quelling of the revolution"
  • the act of suppressing
  • (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
  • forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
  • the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
  • (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant
  • forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
  • the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
  • the failure to develop some part or organ

Synonyms for the word suppression

• • crushing
  • curtailment
  • inhibition
  • quelling
  • stifling

Hyponyms for the word suppression

• • crackdown

Hypernyms for the word suppression

• • abstinence
  • bar
  • development
  • growing
  • growth
  • maturation
  • ontogenesis
  • ontogeny
  • prevention
  • restraint

See other words

• • What is repressed
  • The definition of keep inside
  • The interpretation of the word delimited
  • What is meant by state clearly
  • The lexical meaning somersault
  • The dictionary meaning of the word set the limits of
  • The grammatical meaning of the word demarcate
  • Meaning of the word draw up the boundaries of
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word sachet
  • The origin of the word dislodge
  • Synonym for the word budgerigar
  • Antonyms for the word provide backing
  • Homonyms for the word armorer
  • Hyponyms for the word shunt
  • Holonyms for the word budged
  • Hypernyms for the word budges
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word have a stab
  • Translation of the word in other languages have a go