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suppression (192 synonym found)

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abolishment

abolition

aloofness

annihilation

arrest

arrestation

arrestment

backwardness

bamboo curtain

ban

barrier of secrecy

bashfulness

blackout

blankness

blocking

bottling up

breaking

ceasing

censoring

censorship

cessation

check

checking

choking

choking off

clogging

closing up

concealing

concealment

conquering

constriction

contraband

controlling

conversion

corking up

crackdown

cramp

crushing

curtain

defense mechanism

denial

deracination

detachment

detainment

detention

disallowance

discontinuation

discreetness

domestication

Eighteenth Amendment

elimination

embargo

eradication

exclusion

expressionlessness

extermination

extinction

extinguishment

extirpation

fixation

foot-dragging

forbiddance

forbidden fruit

forbidding

frostiness

gentling

guardedness

halting

hampering

hiding

hindering

hindrance

holdback

holding in

holdup

humbling

humiliation

hush-up

impassiveness

impassivity

impersonality

inaccessibility

index

index expurgatorius

index librorum prohibitorum

inhibition

injunction

interdict

interdicting

interdiction

interdictum

introversion

iron curtain

ironbound security

keeping

let

liquidation

locking in

mental block

modesty

negation

negativism

no-no

nuisance value

nullification

oath of secrecy

obstructing

obstructionism

official secrecy

Prohibition Party

pall

precluding

preclusion

prehension

preservation

prohibiting

prohibition

prohibitory injunction

proscription

psychological block

purge

put-down

putting down

quashing

quelling

quenching

quieting

reduction

refusal

remoteness

repression

reservedness

restraining

restriction

restrictive covenants

retainment

retardment

retention

retentiveness

retentivity

reticence

reticency

retirement

rooting out

ruling out

seal of secrecy

setback

silencing

smashing

smothering

snuffing out

squashing

squeeze

squelching

standoffishness

statute

stifling

stopping

stranglehold

strangling

strangulation

stricture

subdual

subduedness

subduing

sublimation

suffocating

suffocation

sumptuary laws

surcease

symbolization

taboo

taming

tenacity

terminating

throttling

treading down

unaffability

unapproachability

uncongeniality

undemonstrativeness

unexpansiveness

uprooting

Volstead Act

veil

veil of secrecy

voiding

withdrawnness

withholding

wraps

zoning

zoning laws

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Definition of suppression:

(n) : the act or instance of suppressing; the state of being suppressed

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Definition of suppression:

(n) : the act or instance of suppressing; the state of being suppressed

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