noun
1. the failure to develop some part or organ
• Hypernyms: ↑growth, ↑growing, ↑maturation, ↑development, ↑ontogeny, ↑ontogenesis
2. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
• Syn: ↑inhibition
• Derivationally related forms: ↑suppress, ↑inhibit (for: ↑inhibition)
• Topics: ↑psychology, ↑psychological science
• Hypernyms: ↑abstinence
3. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
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a suppression of the newspaper
• Syn: ↑curtailment
• Derivationally related forms: ↑suppress
• Hypernyms: ↑restraint
4. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
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the suppression of heresy
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the quelling of the rebellion
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the stifling of all dissent
• Derivationally related forms: ↑stifle (for: ↑stifling), ↑quell (for: ↑quelling), ↑crush (for: ↑crushing), ↑suppress
• Hypernyms: ↑prevention, ↑bar
• Hyponyms: ↑crackdown
Useful english dictionary. 2012.