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noun
The act or instance of suppressing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The state of being suppressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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noun
The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: inhibition
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Broader terms: abstinence
noun
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling
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Broader terms: prevention, bar
Narrower terms: crackdown
noun
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: curtailment
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Broader terms: restraint
noun
the failure to develop some part or organ
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin supprimō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin suppressiōbor. English suppression Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
