Synonyms for suppression
səˈprɛʃ ənsup·pres·sion

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1. suppressionnoun

   the failure to develop some part or organ

   Synonyms:
   stifling, crushing, curtailment, quelling, inhibition

2. suppression, curtailmentnoun

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

   "a suppression of the newspaper"

   Synonyms:
   inhibition, stifling, quelling, curtailment, downsizing, crushing, retrenchment

3. suppression, crushing, quelling, stiflingnoun

   forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

   "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"

   Synonyms:
   stifling, crushing, curtailment, quelling, inhibition

4. inhibition, suppressionnoun

   (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

   Synonyms:
   inhibition, forbiddance, stifling, curtailment, prohibition, crushing, quelling

Matched Categories

1. • Abstinence
   • Growth
   • Prevention
   • Psychology

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1. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   overthrow, crushing, quelling

2. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   restraint, repression, check, stoppage

3. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   concealment

4. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Gram. & Rhet.) omission (as of a letter or a word)

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1. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   quelling, overthrow, repression, restraint, concealment, secretion

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1. List of paraphrases for "suppression":

   repression, deletion, crackdown, oppression, punishment, repressive, suppressing, abolition, compression, elimination, suppress, removal, abolishment, extinction, enforcement, punishing, punish, delete, law-enforcement, deleting, eradication

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1. Summit County:

   Thanks to great aviation work and phenomenal collaboration amongst all agencies involved in the suppression and evacuation efforts here on the #ParleysCanyonFire, things have slowed a bit tonight.

2. Nathan Rose:

   We have shown that the release of mosquitoes in a neighborhood results in 95 percent suppression compared to areas with no release.

3. Judge Nancy Margaret Russo:

   There was no question in my mind that Carmen Marino had full knowledge of all of this suppressed evidence and that he consistently and brazenly engaged in its suppression.

4. Michael Levin:

   The electrical communication amongst cells is really important for tumor suppression, the bigger picture is to understand how these voltages are passed among cells and how they control the transfer of chemical signals among cells.

5. Jody Hice:

   I don't know that they did anything to keep the game in Georgia. I mean they were all screaming voter suppression, take the All-Star Game elsewhere, and that's what happened and as a result it's going to cost about $100 million to the businesses in Georgia.