Suppression
[sə'preʃ(ə)n] or [sə'prɛʃən]
Definition
(noun.) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; 'the suppression of heresy'; 'the quelling of the rebellion'; 'the stifling of all dissent'.
(noun.) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; 'a suppression of the newspaper'.
(noun.) the failure to develop some part or organ.
Edited by Dwight--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
(n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.
(n.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Overthrow, crushing, quelling.[2]. Restraint, repression, check, stoppage.[3]. Concealment.[4]. (Gram. & Rhet.) Omission (as of a letter or a word).
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Examples
- Suppression of so much to make room for so much, had given him a constrained manner, over and above. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This is the price we pay for the appearance of suppression. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I suspected her at once of being privy to the suppression of the Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And this is God's truth, without one word of suppression or exaggeration, as fifty people, both in this place and out of it, very well know. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Those metals are said to have become more abundant in America, since the suppression of some of their paper currencies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Army of the Potomac has every reason to be proud of its four years' record in the suppression of the rebellion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Suppression was not much in his habits; but still, what had been done to him definite enough to afford matter for overt reproof? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Holding it, he proceeded to say: 'A history of a strange marriage, and a strange mother, and a revenge, and a suppression. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Any one might have seen in her haggard face that there was no suppression or evasion so far. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But the patriotism and republican passion of the Poles grew stronger and clearer with suppression. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the various agitations of vigilance committees and alliances for the suppression of the traffic they profess to see continued a work which the abolitionists began. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We read of horrible cruelties in the suppression of these troubles by Hamilcar, the Carthaginian general; of men being crucified by the thousand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pierced deeper than I could endure, made now to feel what defied suppression, I cried-- My heart will break! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yet, a doubt lurks in my mind, Miss Pross, whether it is good for Doctor Manette to have that suppression always shut up within him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He had sought this office with eagerness, under the idea of turning his whole forces to the suppression of the privileged orders of our community. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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