suppressive

/ səˈprɛsɪv /

adjective

1. tending or acting to suppress; involving suppression

2. psychiatry tending to prevent the expression of certain of one's desires or to resist the emergence of mental symptoms

Example Sentences

The book was banned in Boston — a phrase for suppressive moral outrage that survives to this day.

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"One of the things that we showed exploring all of this iron biology is that ferroptosis is tumor suppressive, as everybody suspected -- but much more profoundly in younger animals," Dr. Tammela says.

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Moreover, Ctdnep1 knockdown also led to increased absorption of calcium phosphate, suggestive of the suppressive role of Ctdnep1 in bone resorption.

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In Scientology, cult critics are labeled "suppressive persons," for instance.

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"By liberating these cells from the suppressive environment and growing them in the lab, we can rescue their tumor-fighting capacity when infused back into the patient."

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