Synonyms:
inhibition, suppression
Meaning: (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
Synonyms:
suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
Meaning: forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
Synonyms:
suppression, curtailment
Meaning: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
Synonyms:
suppression
Meaning: the failure to develop some part or organ
Usage examples
Mr. Malone called to the attention of the nation the true cause of the obstruction and suppression.
After assisting in the suppression of the rebellion in Ireland, Drake, whose name was beginning to be well known, was presented to Queen Elizabeth.
The strangest and saddest result, consequent on the suppression of the convents, was that men were made to profit by the loss which women had sustained.
In this sector, and only in this sector, the tests of the news are sufficiently exact to make the charges of perversion or suppression more than a partisan judgment.
Harsh, dry, yellow skin, purpuric spots with ecchymoses under the skin and mucous membranes, retention or suppression of urine, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death.
I saw the thing as no gathering of light hearts and gay idleness, but grimly--after the manner of poor men poisoned by the suppression of all their cravings after joy.
I hope you will recognize the inevitability of the conclusion that it is the shocking character of these places in the dream that was the motive for their suppression.
Anew visitation was appointed of all the monasteries in England; and a pretence only being wanted for their suppression, it was easy for a prince, possessed of such unlimited power, and seconding the present humor of a great part of the nation, to find or feign one.
It is claimed that in States, districts, and counties, in which the colored people are in the majority, the suppression of the colored vote is necessary to prevent "Negro Domination,"--to prevent the ascendency of the blacks over the whites in the administration of the State and local governments.