suppression
The act or instance of suppressingThe act or instance of suppressing.
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» A caged bird represents a suppression of some urge or drive.
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5 senses(countable, uncountable)The act or instance of suppressing.
Unterdrückung
(countable, uncountable)The state of being suppressed.
(countable, uncountable)A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
Verdrängung
(countable, uncountable)The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
(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.
- 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
8 sentencesA caged bird represents a suppression of some urge or drive.
Suppression and distortion of historical facts are unacceptable.
ruЗамалчивание и искажение исторических фактов недопустимо. — marafon
Woke culture is the suppression of freedom of speech in the name of freedom of speech.
Up till now America has called itself the world's police and continued suppression relying on military force.
The biggest threat to democracy in the United States is voter suppression.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 2
Origin
Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.
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Forms
plural: suppressions| Singular | suppression |
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regular
Synonyms
5 synonyms- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority:crushingquellingstifling
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation:curtailment
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires:inhibition
Word family
27 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.