suppressive

British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

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

In his law letter, Mr. Wendt said the gun was “suitable for engagements and suppressive fire.”

From New York Times

Voter suppression legislation tends to provoke a "countermobilization effort that is both directed against suppression and at the party that instituted or imposes those suppressive laws," he said.

From Salon

The booming turnout this year has led Georgia Republicans to insist that their voting law was not suppressive.

From New York Times

But Alley also denied the many reports — from the likes of Remini and others — that Scientology labels those who leave the church “suppressive persons” and requires members to cut off contact with them.

From Los Angeles Times