suppressive
Britishadjective
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tending or acting to suppress; involving suppression
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psychiatry tending to prevent the expression of certain of one's desires or to resist the emergence of mental symptoms
Example Sentences
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After receiving the transplants, the mice no longer needed immune suppressive drugs or insulin at any point during the six-month study.
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025
The book was banned in Boston — a phrase for suppressive moral outrage that survives to this day.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
That is why I believe protecting libraries from suppressive movements is a societal necessity.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023
They have been through their own suppressive or traumatic environments and fell in love.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2023
In such cases the suppressive treatment, by drugs or knife, is again applied instead of eliminative and curative measures.
From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry
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