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Synonyms for suppression
səˈprɛʃ ənsup·pres·sion
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Princeton's WordNet
suppressionnoun
the failure to develop some part or organ
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stifling, crushing, curtailment, quelling, inhibitionsuppression, curtailmentnoun
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
"a suppression of the newspaper"
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inhibition, stifling, quelling, curtailment, downsizing, crushing, retrenchmentsuppression, 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"
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stifling, crushing, curtailment, quelling, inhibitioninhibition, suppressionnoun
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
Synonyms:
inhibition, forbiddance, stifling, curtailment, prohibition, crushing, quelling
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
suppressionnoun
suppressionnoun
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restraint, repression, check, stoppagesuppressionnoun
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concealmentsuppressionnoun
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(Gram. & Rhet.) omission (as of a letter or a word)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
suppressionnoun
Synonyms:
quelling, overthrow, repression, restraint, concealment, secretion
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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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Suppression
Suppression vs. Repression -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Suppression and Repression.
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#2377 | delete | |
#2902 | removal | |
#3243 | enforcement | |
#5864 | compression | |
#7790 | punishment | |
#9436 | elimination | |
#11274 | deletion | |
#12612 | deleting | |
#12650 | suppression | |
#12795 | prohibition | |
#13260 | inhibition | |
#16484 | extinction | |
#16683 | suppress | |
#17439 | punish | |
#18852 | oppression | |
#20304 | repression | |
#21692 | crushing | |
#23148 | eradication | |
#24460 | abolition | |
#27745 | crackdown | |
#32471 | punishing | |
#34720 | suppressing | |
#36633 | downsizing | |
#37847 | repressive | |
#51207 | stifling | |
#62743 | curtailment | |
#75551 | retrenchment | |
#107908 | abolishment | |
#170741 | quelling |
How to use suppression in a sentence?
The US claims it seeks to compete with China but does not seek conflict. But in reality, the so-called ‘competition’ by the US is all-round containment and suppression, a zero-sum game of life and death, containment and suppression will not make America great, and the US will not stop the rejuvenation of China.
The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.
It is my hope that businesses, athletes, and entertainers can protest this law not by leaving Georgia but by coming here and fighting voter suppression head on, and hand-in-hand with the community.
Voter suppression is no longer billy clubs Jim Crow. It's closed polling sites + 6 hr waits w/o pay. COVID is no excuse, who needs to vote in person ? The disabled. The homeless or displaced. Voters w/language barriers. Folks who didn't get their ballots in time. Americans.
I would be very hesitant to say that the child will be completely off all immune suppression, because this technique only takes care of the T cells, of the thymic cells, immunity is also mediated by antibodies by the humoral cells, which require a completely different mechanism of immune suppression.
Translations for suppression
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- إخمادArabic
- potlačeníCzech
- undertrykkelseDanish
- UnterdrückungGerman
- subpremadoEsperanto
- supresiónSpanish
- tukahduttaminenFinnish
- suppressionFrench
- elnyomásHungarian
- penekananIndonesian
- soppressioneItalian
- 抑� Japanese
- suppressioLatin
- onderdrukkingDutch
- undertrykkelseNorwegian
- tłumieniePolish
- supressãoPortuguese
- suprimareRomanian
- undertryckandeSwedish
- การปราบปรามThai
- BastırmaTurkish
- đàn ápVietnamese
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