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. Sebastien Penzini:

   The evolving nature of wildfires obliges us to really change our paradigm and put more emphasis on fire prevention than suppression, because the fires to come - and those we’re already observing in Europe - are completely beyond (our) control.

2. Thomas I. Emerson:

   Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.

3. Hillary Holley:

   Now, with the GOP's voter suppression campaign ramping up in state houses across the country, Fair Fight Action is proud to join with Michelle Obama and When We All Vote alongside other civil and voting rights organizations to fight back against Republicans' anti-voter agenda. We're ready to work with our allies to recruit new volunteers and keep organizing Americans to push for the Senate to pass new federal protections for voting rights at a time when we need them more than ever.

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, we need to crack this bioelectrical code. We really need to figure out how computations in tissues and decision making about pattern and cell behavior and so on are encoded in electrical signaling. That is sort of the next ten years.

5. Incident Commander Noel Livingston:

   We've had a very good, very good day on the fire, very active suppression day.