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How to pronounce suppression in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms crushing, quelling, stifling
Type of prevention, bar
Has types crackdown
Derivation suppress


the suppression of heresy.
Type Words
Synonyms inhibition
Type of abstinence
Derivation suppress
Type Words
Synonyms curtailment
Type of restraint
Derivation suppress


a suppression of the newspaper.
Type Words
Type of ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, growth, growing, development

Examples of suppression

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Thus, early suppression of Th17 cells may block the development of autoimmunity.
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Instead, the Chinese communists carried out aggression and suppression in Tibet.
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The EU considers such prohibition to amount to suppression of religious freedom.
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The suppression of modus ponens as a case of pragmatic preconditional reasoning.
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A justification-suppression model of the expression and experience of prejudice.
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In many cases suppression is done to ensure the people in power remain in power.
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Despite its suppression, the revolt had severely depleted the Empire's defenses.
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Ishmael said the request for the suppression hearing will be taken up March 17.
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Additionally, the American 500 is built with more noise-suppression provisions.
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More examples
  • The failure to develop some part or organ
  • The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
  • Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
  • Inhibition: (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
  • (suppress) to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
  • (suppress) oppress: come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
  • Suppression of an eye is a subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia. The brain can eliminate double vision by ignoring the images of one of the eyes. ...
  • Suppression is a Catholic term for the formal disbanding of a parish. It differs from the more common practice of merging parishes.
  • (Suppressive (Scientology)) Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP, is a term used in Scientology to describe the "antisocial personalities" who, according to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, make up about 2.5% of the population. ...