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suppression
noun
1 suppression
The failure to develop some part or organ.
Roget 162:
destruction;
waste,
dissolution,
breaking up;
diruption†,
disruption;
consumption;
disorganization.
fall,
downfall,
devastation,
ruin,
perdition,
crash;
eboulement [Fr.],
smash,
havoc,
delabrement [Fr.],
debacle;
break down,
break up,
fall apart;
prostration;
desolation,
bouleversement [Fr.],
wreck,
wrack,
shipwreck,
cataclysm;
washout.
extinction,
annihilation;
destruction of life
etc.
361;
knock-down blow;
doom,
crack of doom.
destroying
etc.
v.;
demolition,
demolishment;
overthrow,
subversion,
suppression;
abolition
etc.
(abrogation)
756;
biblioclasm†;
sacrifice;
ravage,
razzia†;
inactivation;
incendiarism;
revolution
etc.
146;
extirpation
etc.
(extraction)
301;
beginning of the end,
commencement de la fin [Fr.],
road to ruin;
dilapidation
etc.
(deterioration)
659;
sabotage.
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Roget 528:
concealment;
hiding
etc.
v.;
occultation,
mystification.
seal of secrecy;
screen
etc.
530;
disguise
etc.
530;
masquerade;
masked battery;
hiding place
etc.
530;
cryptography,
steganography†;
freemasonry.
stealth,
stealthiness,
sneakiness;
obreption†;
slyness
etc.
(cunning)
702.
latitancy†,
latitation†;
seclusion
etc.
893;
privacy,
secrecy,
secretness†;
incognita.
reticence;
reserve;
mental reserve,
reservation;
arriere pensee [Fr.],
suppression,
evasion,
white lie,
misprision;
silence
etc.
(taciturnity)
585;
suppression of truth
etc.
544;
underhand dealing;
closeness,
secretiveness
etc.
adj.;
mystery.
latency
etc.
526;
snake in the grass;
secret
etc.
533;
stowaway.
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Roget 751:
restraint;
hindrance
etc.
706;
coercion
etc.
(compulsion)
744;
cohibition†,
constraint,
repression,
suppression;
discipline,
control.
confinement;
durance,
duress;
imprisonment;
incarceration,
coarctation†,
entombment,
mancipation†,
durance vile,
limbo,
captivity;
blockade.
arrest,
arrestation†;
custody,
keep,
care,
charge,
ward,
restringency†.
curb
etc.
(means of restraint)
752;
lettres de cachet [Fr.].
limitation,
restriction,
protection,
monopoly;
prohibition
etc.
761.
prisoner
etc.
754;
repressionist†.
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2 suppression
The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation:
— A suppression of the newspaper.
synonym: curtailment.
3 suppression
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority:
— The suppression of heresy.
synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling.
4 suppression
psychology The conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires.
synonym: inhibition.
Polish: zahamowanie
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