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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To overcome the effects of SLAMF6, Veillette and his colleagues created monoclonal antibodies designed to stop the molecule from binding to itself and triggering its suppressive signals.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
Mr. Reddie has forked me, as he thinks, on a dilemma: if unaware, culpable ignorance; if aware, suppressive intention.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
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