suppression

sup·pres·sion  (s-prshn)

n.

1. The act of suppressing.

2. The state of being suppressed.

3. Psychiatry Conscious exclusion of unacceptable desires, thoughts, or memories from the mind.

4. Botany The failure of an organ or part to develop.

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suppression [səˈprɛʃən]

n

1. the act or process of suppressing or the condition of being suppressed

2. (Psychoanalysis) Psychoanal the conscious avoidance of unpleasant thoughts Compare repression [2]

3. (Electronics) Electronics the act or process of suppressing a frequency, oscillation, etc.

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology the failure of an organ or part to develop

5. (Medicine) Med the cessation of any physiological process

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Temporary or transient degradation by an opposing force of the performance of a weapons system below the level needed to fulfill its mission objectives.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	suppression - the failure to develop some part or organ growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
	2.	suppression - the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" curtailment restraint - the act of controlling by restraining someone or something; "the unlawful restraint of trade"
	3.	suppression - forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" crushing, quelling, stifling prevention, bar - the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" crackdown - severely repressive actions
	4.	suppression - (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires inhibition abstinence - act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life

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suppression

noun

1. elimination, crushing, crackdown, check, extinction, prohibition, quashing, dissolution, termination, clampdown They were imprisoned after the suppression of pro-democracy protests.

2. inhibition, blocking, checking, restriction, restraint, smothering suppression of the immune system

3. concealment, covering, hiding, disguising, camouflage A mother's suppression of her own feelings can cause problems.

4. hiding, censorship, hushing up, stonewalling suppression of official documents

Quotations
"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression: if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining" [Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March]

Translations

suppression [səˈpreʃən] N [of symptoms, dissent, opposition, publication] → supresión f; [of feelings] → represión f; [of news, scandal, the truth] → ocultación f; [of revolt] → represión f

suppression [səˈprɛʃ^ən] n

[rebellion, revolt, activity] → répression f

[information] → suppression f; [scandal] → étouffement m

[immune system, appetite] → inhibition f

suppression

n

(of feelings, smile, dissent, views, symptoms, protest) → Unterdrückung f; (of appetite) → Zügelung f; (of information, evidence) → Zurückhalten nt

(Elec) → Entstörung f

suppression [səˈprɛʃ/ən] n (of emotions) → repressione f; (of scandal) → soffocamento; (of truth) → il tacere; (of evidence) → occultamento; (of publication) → soppressione f

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suppression [səˈprɛʃ/ən] n (of emotions) → repressione f; (of scandal) → soffocamento; (of truth) → il tacere; (of evidence) → occultamento; (of publication) → soppressione f