Dictionary

suppression en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /səˈpɹɛʃən/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /səˈpɹeʃən/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin supprimō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin suppressiōbor. English suppression Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or instance of suppressing.
   • The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
2. (countable, uncountable) The state of being suppressed.
3. (countable, uncountable) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. (countable, uncountable) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
   • In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi. 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:
5. (countable, of an eye, uncountable) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

Forms

Deriveds

suppressionism (Suffixed forms) · inflammosuppression (Prefixed forms) · nonsuppression (Prefixed forms) · contrasuppression (Prefixed forms) · thrombosuppression (Prefixed forms) · hood suppression system (Compound words) · neurosuppression (Prefixed forms) · oversuppression (Prefixed forms) · suppressionist (Suffixed forms) · phenotypic suppression (Compound words) · suppression order (Compound words) · voter suppression (Compound words) · angiosuppression (Prefixed forms) · presuppression (Prefixed forms) · supersuppression (Prefixed forms) · immunosuppression (Prefixed forms) · myelosuppression (Prefixed forms) · radiosuppression (Prefixed forms) · space suppression (Compound words) · lymphosuppression (Prefixed forms) · oncosuppression (Prefixed forms) · resuppression (Prefixed forms) · cardiosuppression (Prefixed forms) · postsuppressional (Prefixed forms) · fibrosuppression (Prefixed forms) · cosuppression (Prefixed forms)

Relateds

suppress · repression

Translations (18)

pl tłumienie (the act or instance of suppressing) · pl represja (psychology) · hu elhallgattatás (the act or instance of suppressing) · pl wyparcie (psychology) · pl represja (the act or instance of suppressing) · el εξάλειψη (the act or instance of suppressing) · hu eltitkolás (the act or instance of suppressing) · bg потискане (the act or instance of suppressing) · hu visszafojtás (the act or instance of suppressing) · hu elfojtás (the act or instance of suppressing) · hu eltussolás (the act or instance of suppressing) · de Verdrängung (psychology) · hi दमन (the act or instance of suppressing) · eo subpremo (the act or instance of suppressing) · de Unterdrückung (the act or instance of suppressing) · hu visszatartás (the act or instance of suppressing) · hu elnyomás (the act or instance of suppressing) · hu elhallgatás (the act or instance of suppressing)