MEANING
1. The prevention or forceful ending of an activity, expression, or organized movement.
2. The deliberate withholding of information so that it cannot become known or considered.
3. The reduction or blocking of a biological or psychological function, activity, or response.
Use it for
describing an authority stopping dissent; distinguishing prevention from persuasion; analyzing the use of force to end collective actionDistinguishes stopping activity, concealing information and inhibiting a function. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- suppression of dissent
- suppression of a movement
- political suppression
On the page
The chapter distinguishes the suppression of protest from a decline in public support.
Legal restrictions enabled suppression without resolving the grievances that produced the movement.
The inquiry examined whether the omission amounted to suppression of evidence.
An incomplete archive does not by itself establish deliberate suppression of information.
The review distinguishes emotional suppression from the absence of emotional experience.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- suppression
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. Suppressions can refer to distinct instances in specialist contexts. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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