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Meaning of Suppression | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
səˈpɹɛʃən

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية إرهاق الإخماد
Esperanto subpremo
Français suppression
עברית ד־כ־א
हिन्दी दमन धर्षण शमन
Bahasa Indonesia pemadaman
日本語 制圧 圧殺 封殺 平定 抑制 鎮圧
한국어 억압 진압 탄압
Svenska kväsning
Türkçe bastırma lağıv
Українська заглушення

Examples

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.”
“In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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