EGAVE

suppression

About 7.82 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act or instance of suppressing.
  2. noun The state of being suppressed.
  3. noun A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
  4. noun The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
  5. noun A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

Similar words

inhibition quelling stifling curtailment crushing suppressing repressive repression prevention suppress

Often followed by

of and in by is or test was with

Word family

suppressions

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