What is another word for suppression?

Synonyms for suppression
səˈprɛʃ ənsup·pres·sion

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word suppression.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. suppressionnoun

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

Suggested Resources

  1. Suppression

    Suppression vs. Repression -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Suppression and Repression.

How to pronounce suppression?

How to say suppression in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#2377delete
#2902removal
#3243enforcement
#5864compression
#7790punishment
#9436elimination
#11274deletion
#12612deleting
#12650suppression
#12795prohibition
#13260inhibition
#16484extinction
#16683suppress
#17439punish
#18852oppression
#20304repression
#21692crushing
#23148eradication
#24460abolition
#27745crackdown
#32471punishing
#34720suppressing
#36633downsizing
#37847repressive
#51207stifling
#62743curtailment
#75551retrenchment
#107908abolishment
#170741quelling

How to use suppression in a sentence?

  1. Foreign Minister Qin:

    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.

  2. Bertrand Russell:

    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.

  3. Raphael Warnock:

    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.

  4. Stacey Abrams:

    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.

  5. Reshma Biniwale:

    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

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for suppression »

Translation

Find a translation for the suppression synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"suppression." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/suppression>.

Discuss these suppression synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for suppression?

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    Synonym of Blunt?
    A Sharp
    B Blur
    C Stark
    D Refuse

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for suppression: