suppression

suppression
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • suppression — [ sypresjɔ̃ ] n. f. • v. 1380; lat. suppressio, de suppressum, supin de supprimere ♦ Action de supprimer; son résultat. 1 ♦ Dr. Le fait de cacher. Suppression de part, d enfant : délit consistant à faire disparaître la preuve de son existence sur …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • suppression — s. f. v. Action de supprimer. On a ordonné la suppression d un tel livre. cette cause est devenuë mauvaise par la suppression de certaines circonstances. suppression d une charge. d un Ordre Religieux. Edit de suppression. Suppression d urine.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • suppression — suppression. См. супрессия. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • Suppression — (lat.), Unterdrückung; Verheimlichung; suppressīv, unterdrückend; supprimieren, unterdrücken …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • suppression — index abatement (reduction), bar (obstruction), censorship, concealment, constraint (restriction) …   Law dictionary

  • suppression — 1520s, from L. suppressionem (nom. suppresio), noun of action from pp. stem of supprimere (see SUPPRESS (Cf. suppress)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • suppression — Suppression, Suppressio …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • suppression — [sə presh′ən] n. [L suppressio] 1. a suppressing or being suppressed 2. Psychiatry a) the mechanism by which unacceptable ideas, impulses, etc. are suppressed b) something suppressed in this way …   English World dictionary

  • Suppression — The term Suppression may refer to:* Oppression * Censorship * Voter suppression * Cultural suppression * Suppression of religion * Political suppression * Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain… …   Wikipedia

  • suppression — (su prè sion ; en vers, de quatre syllabes) s. f. 1°   Action de supprimer. La suppression d une circonstance dans un exposé. La suppression d un emploi. •   Je vois qu il a, le traître, empaumé son esprit, Qu à ma suppression il s est ancré chez …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

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