Suppression

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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     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.
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     3. (Gram.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
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     Syn: Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression;
          detention; retention; obstruction.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  228 Moby Thesaurus words for "suppression":
     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