Definition for Suppression:

• The act of crushing or destroying; the act of holding back or retaining; concealment; stoppage; in gram., the omission, as of words.

Synonyms for Suppression:

• adj.

  •sedative (adjective)
  • slumberous.
  •slumberous (adjective)
  • Husher.

• n.

  •
  • defeat,
  • destruction,
  • overriding,
  • annihilation,
  • overthrow,
  • elimination.
  •abolition (noun)
  • abolishment.
  •arrest (noun)
  • de lays,
  • stayings,
  • de-lays,
  • re straining,
  • de-lay,
  • re-straining,
  • restrainings,
  • de lay.
  •ban (noun)
  • donts,
  • nono's,
  • in-junction,
  • out bounds,
  • nonos,
  • re strictions,
  • re-striction,
  • nono,
  • no no,
  • in junctions,
  • out bound,
  • re striction,
  • out of bound,
  • no nos,
  • a thou shalt nots,
  • off limit,
  • a thou-shalt-nots,
  • in junction,
  • no no's,
  • a thou shalt not,
  • in-junctions,
  • re-strictions.
  •censorship (noun)
  • bowdlerizations,
  • iron curtains,
  • infringing on right,
  • infringing right,
  • hush ups,
  • infringing rights,
  • thought controls,
  • blue pencils.
  •concealment (noun)
  • coverup,
  • secrecy.
  •constraint (noun)
  • impellings,
  • drivings,
  • a musts.
  •crushing (noun)
  • crushing.
  •curtailment (noun)
  • curtailment.
  •defense mechanism (noun)
  • symbolization,
  • defense reaction.
  •domination (noun)
  • pre potences,
  • pre potency,
  • pre-potences,
  • pre-potency,
  • pre potence,
  • pre-potencies,
  • sub-ordinations,
  • pre-potence,
  • prepotences,
  • pre potencies,
  • sub-ordination,
  • sub ordination,
  • sub ordinations.
  •forgetfulness (noun)
  • paramnesia,
  • fugues,
  • absentmindedness,
  • blockout,
  • dreaminess,
  • fugue,
  • short memory,
  • laxness,
  • hypomnesia,
  • loss of memory,
  • lapse of memory.
  •process (noun)
  • suppression.
  •prohibition (noun)
  • blockade,
  • disapproval,
  • injunction,
  • prevention,
  • bar,
  • preclusion,
  • restriction,
  • forbiddance,
  • prohibition,
  • denial,
  • Disallowance,
  • rejection,
  • restraint.
  •purge (noun)
  • dis position,
  • dis-position,
  • ex purgation,
  • ex terminations,
  • abstersions,
  • ex purgations,
  • ex-terminations,
  • dis-positions,
  • ex-purgation,
  • dis positions,
  • reign terror,
  • ex-purgations,
  • ex-termination.
  •put-down (noun)
  • put-down,
  • putdown,
  • put down.
  •quelling (noun)
  • quelling.
  •repression (noun)
  • smotherings,
  • quellings.
  •reserve (noun)
  • selfrestraint,
  • un responsiveness,
  • re-serve,
  • re serve,
  • un responsivenesses,
  • re serves,
  • self restraint,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • re-serves.
  •restraint (noun)
  • withholdings,
  • self-government,
  • self-discipline.
  •secrecy (noun)
  • secretiveness,
  • stealth,
  • surreptitiousness,
  • confidentiality,
  • confidentialities,
  • Secretness.
  •secretiveness (noun)
  • huggermuggery.
  •stifling (noun)
  • stifling.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • selfcontrol.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un-communicativenesses,
  • un communicativeness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • limitation,
  • crackdown,
  • clampdown.
  •
  • loss.

Paraphrases for Suppression:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    prevention.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    prevention.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, plural
    creations.
  • Proper noun, singular
    removal, removals.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    coercion, suspension, law-enforcement, destruction, inhibition, disappearance, repeal, removal, Compressive, depression, brutality, exclusion, deprivation, Neutralizing, revocation.
  • Verb, past tense
    Abolished, Avoided, addressed.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    abolishes, deletes.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    repression, Suppressing, suppress, deletion, deletions, abolition, elimination, abolishment, crackdown, eradication, extinction, punishment, discontinuance.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    oppression, repression, persecution, proscription, compression, Suppressing, neutralization, subjugation, criminalization, suppress, clampdown, deletion, penalization, abrogation, phasing-out, erasure, trampling, retrenchment, suffocation, abolition, elimination, circumvention, criminalisation, abolishment, crackdown, concealment, neutralisation, containment, deterrence, dismantling, eradication, deactivation, halt, extinction, punishment, discontinuance, omission, sanction.

Antonyms for Suppression:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    incontinence, indulgence, bluntness, overindulgence, candor, frankness, unrestrainedness, gratification, intemperance, Immoderacy, self-indulgence.

Suppression Sentence Examples:

• He also held strenuous opinions of the conduct of Government and the suppression of public evils, based obviously upon military views of things..

• 290 Events Preceding the Suppression, .

Hyponym for Suppression:

• n.

  • process
    growing, growth, ontogenesis, development, ontogeny, maturation.