Dictionary Entry
suppression
suppression is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
- 4noun
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
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- 5noun
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
"the suppression of heresy"
"the quelling of the rebellion"
- 6noun
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
"a suppression of the newspaper"
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- 7noun
the failure to develop some part or organ
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