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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The book was banned in Boston — a phrase for suppressive moral outrage that survives to this day.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
"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.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024
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
Indeed the very dogmas of the Epicurean school, if taken in all earnestness, were suppressive of lyrical enthusiasm.
From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney
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