Synonyms for suppression
səˈprɛʃ ənsup·pres·sion

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1. suppressionnoun

   the failure to develop some part or organ

   Synonyms:
   stifling, crushing, curtailment, quelling, inhibition

2. suppression, curtailmentnoun

   the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

   "a suppression of the newspaper"

   Synonyms:
   inhibition, stifling, quelling, curtailment, downsizing, crushing, retrenchment

3. suppression, crushing, quelling, stiflingnoun

   forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

   "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"

   Synonyms:
   stifling, crushing, curtailment, quelling, inhibition

4. inhibition, suppressionnoun

   (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

   Synonyms:
   inhibition, forbiddance, stifling, curtailment, prohibition, crushing, quelling

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1. • Abstinence
   • Growth
   • Prevention
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1. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   overthrow, crushing, quelling

2. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   restraint, repression, check, stoppage

3. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   concealment

4. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Gram. & Rhet.) omission (as of a letter or a word)

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1. suppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   quelling, overthrow, repression, restraint, concealment, secretion

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1. List of paraphrases for "suppression":

   repression, deletion, crackdown, oppression, punishment, repressive, suppressing, abolition, compression, elimination, suppress, removal, abolishment, extinction, enforcement, punishing, punish, delete, law-enforcement, deleting, eradication

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1. Bobi Wine:

   When leaders become misleaders and mentors become tormentors when freedom of expression becomes a target of suppression opposition becomes our position - Bobi Wine

2. Brittany Kaiser:

   By allowing politicians in the UK and the U.S. to engage in voter suppression tactics, using disinformation and discrimination, we are now just as unprotected as we were in December 2016, why do I say this? Because in 2016 I was there (working at Cambridge Analytica).

3. John Lewis:

   Supreme Court justices believe Supreme Court justices will outwork and out-organize them and find ways to overcome voter suppression, that's been the history of Supreme Court justices experience with voting in this country -- having to overcome those barriers.

4. John Sarbanes:

   The 2020 election underscored the need for comprehensive, structural democracy reform, americans across the country were forced to overcome rampant voter suppression, gerrymandering and a torrent of special-interest dark money just to exercise their vote and their voice in our democracy.

5. Kamala Harris:

   Lets say this loud and clear, Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia. Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida.