as in restraint
the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others
learned that suppression of her angry feelings didn't necessarily make them go away
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Recent Examples of suppression
The fire suppression efforts involve five engines, three water tenders and two hand crews.
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
Where Masculinity Is Reimagined, Vulnerability Becomes Relational Intelligence Contemporary research challenges the outdated notion that masculinity requires emotional suppression.
—Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Firefighters continue to assess fire suppression control-line locations and dozers are extending and connecting those lines already developed.
—Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 16 May 2025
Fire engine crews will be on-scene for a few hours this morning working on suppression repair.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 May 2025
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
Where Masculinity Is Reimagined, Vulnerability Becomes Relational Intelligence Contemporary research challenges the outdated notion that masculinity requires emotional suppression.
—Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Firefighters continue to assess fire suppression control-line locations and dozers are extending and connecting those lines already developed.
—Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 16 May 2025
Fire engine crews will be on-scene for a few hours this morning working on suppression repair.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suppression
Noun
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After George Floyd was killed in 2020, many police departments across the country banned or restricted the knee-on-neck restraint.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
27 May 2025
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Rickson stages both plays with elegant restraint, arranging just a few bits of furniture in front of a bare brick wall.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
22 May 2025
Noun
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For Black Americans, the history of repression of education runs even deeper.—
Karida L. Brown,
Essence,
21 May 2025
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After 2012, when Putin returned to the presidency, the Kremlin began tightening its grip on Russia’s elites, embracing an archaic militarism, and widening its repression of civil society.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Such defensive discipline and intelligent street-smarts have meant that Inzaghi’s side have trailed for just 16 minutes across the whole Champions League campaign — just one per cent of their total time on the pitch.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Currently, the Academy is composed of 19 branches, each representing a specific discipline within the industry, with the newest Production and Technology Branch created in 2023, and the split of the animation feature and shorts in 2024.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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Its inhibition was leveled at the thing, not the name.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Just in time for the full moon in Libra on April 12, Luna will illuminate your 12th house of secrets, inhibitions and unconscious patterns, urging you to let go of patterns that no longer serve you.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Suppression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppression. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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