noun
- The failure to develop some part or organ.
- The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation.
- usage: "a suppression of the newspaper"
- synonyms: curtailment
- Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority.
- usage: "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- Psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires. (.
- synonyms: inhibition
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