suppression

[ suh-presh-uhn ]

/ səˈprɛʃ ən /

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noun

the act of suppressing.

the state of being suppressed.

Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.

Botany. the absence of parts normally or usually present due to the action of frost, disease, or insects.

Radio, Electronics. the elimination of a component of a varying emission, as the elimination of a frequency or group of frequencies from a signal.

Electricity. the reduction or elimination of irregular current oscillations or frequencies in a circuit.

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Origin of suppression

1520–30; <Latin suppressiōn- (stem of suppressiō) a pressing under. See suppress, -ion

OTHER WORDS FROM suppression

non·sup·pres·sion, nounre·sup·pres·sion, nounself-sup·pres·sion, noun

Words nearby suppression

suppository, suppress, suppressant, suppressed, suppressed carrier modulation, suppression, suppressive, suppressor, suppressor grid, suppressor mutation, suppressor T cell

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How to use suppression in a sentence

During India’s state elections, Logically worked with the Maharashtra Cyber police and the state’s election commission to identify online disinformation that could lead to voter suppression.
He’s Fighting QAnon With Sunlight|Nick Fouriezos|September 6, 2020|Ozy
We’ve got racism issues in this country and these other issues of gun violence and voter suppression.
Levi Strauss’s Chip Bergh on why he’s taking his most direct stance yet against structural racism|Ellen McGirt|September 1, 2020|Fortune
Because many states block people with felony records from voting, the reality that justice is not in fact blind drives voter suppression.
Levi Strauss CEO: We can’t solve racial inequality if gun violence and voter disenfranchisement persist|jakemeth|September 1, 2020|Fortune
However, in 2013, the Supreme Court voted to invalidate certain parts of that act, opening the door to voter suppression.
51 Years Later, the Cuyahoga River Burns Again|Wes Siler|August 28, 2020|Outside Online

More quantitatively — and related — fire suppression in California is big business, with impressive year-over-year growth.
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?|by Elizabeth Weil|August 28, 2020|ProPublica
But its far more insidious role was revealed, whether it was gun policies or voter suppression.
Mike Brown Dies, a Generation Comes Alive|Roland S. Martin|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Among others, they include interference with sleep and suppression of appetite.
Why Giving Adderall to Toddlers Is So Completely, Utterly Wrong|Russell Saunders|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He predicts that after the March 16 referendum, the suppression of dissidents and even ethnic cleansing could become more common.
The Crimea Exodus Has Begun|Oleg Shynkarenko|March 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Democrats shouted “voter suppression;” Republicans warned of “fraud.”
A Bipartisan Path to Fixing America’s Broken Elections|Michael Waldman|January 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He is best known for his brutal suppression of opponents and hardline rule over Zimbabwe.
Searching Hard for Mugabe’s Conscience|James Kirchick|January 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The recent law passed by the Spanish Cortes for the suppression of religious houses, has been strictly enforced here.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
He desired neither the suppression of hell nor of the guillotine for the disposal of sinners and assassins.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier
His majesty also alluded to a treaty which he had concluded with the Queen of Spain for the suppression of the slave-trade.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
The true policy would have been the suppression of all secret political societies.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
In the meantime the university had taken steps to ensure the suppression of heretical books.
A History of the Cambridge University Press|S. C. Roberts

British Dictionary definitions for suppression

suppression

/ (səˈprɛʃən) /

noun

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

psychoanal the conscious avoidance of unpleasant thoughtsCompare repression (def. 2)

electronics the act or process of suppressing a frequency, oscillation, etc

biology the failure of an organ or part to develop

med the cessation of any physiological process

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Medical definitions for suppression

suppression

[ sə-prĕsh′ən ]

The act of suppressing or the state of being suppressed.

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

The sudden arrest of the secretion of a fluid, such as urine or bile.

The checking or curtailing of an abnormal flow or discharge.

The effect of a second genetic mutation that reverses a phenotypic change that had been caused by a previous mutation at a different location on the chromosome.

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