Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act or instance of suppressing.

    Unterdrückung

  2. (countable, uncountable)The state of being suppressed.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.

    Verdrängung

  4. (countable, uncountable)The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

More definitions
  • 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
  • (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

Examples

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  1. A caged bird represents a suppression of some urge or drive.

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  2. Suppression and distortion of historical facts are unacceptable.

    ruЗамалчивание и искажение исторических фактов недопустимо.

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  3. Woke culture is the suppression of freedom of speech in the name of freedom of speech.

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  4. Up till now America has called itself the world's police and continued suppression relying on military force.

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  5. The biggest threat to democracy in the United States is voter suppression.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
the act or instance of suppressing:
psychology:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.

Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.

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