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suppression

English

  1. 🔊 forceful prevention
    “the suppression of heresy”
  2. 🔊 the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
    “a suppression of the newspaper”
  3. 🔊 the failure to develop some part or organ
  4. 🔊 (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

Spanish

  1. 🔊 supresión suppression

Similar words

inhibition crushing quelling stifling curtailment eighteenth amendment prohibition party volstead act abolishment abolition aloofness annihilation annulment arrest arrestation arrestment backwardness bamboo curtain ban barrier of secrecy bashfulness blackout blankness block