suppression — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act or instance of suppressing.

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   The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

2. The state of being suppressed.

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

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

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   In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.

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

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   • of an eye

Noun

1. the failure to develop some part or organ

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   growthgrowingmaturationdevelopmentontogenyontogenesis

2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

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   curtailment

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   restraint

   Examples

   a suppression of the newspaper

3. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

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   crushingquellingstifling

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   preventionbar

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   the suppression of heresy

   the quelling of the rebellion

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   the stifling of all dissent

4. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

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   inhibition

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   abstinence