suppression

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sup=pres=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

suppression, n. [L. suppressio: cf. F. suppression.].

•  The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.  [1913 Webster]
•  Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.  Quain.  [1913 Webster]
•  Omission; as, the suppression of a word.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression; detention; retention; obstruction.

THESAURUS

suppression

Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abolishment, abolition, aloofness, annihilation, annulment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, backwardness, bamboo curtain, ban, barrier of secrecy, bashfulness, blackout, blankness, block, blockage, blocking, bottling up, breaking, ceasing, censoring, censorship, cessation, check, checking, chilliness, choking, choking off, clogging, closing up, closure, coldness, concealing, concealment, conquering, constraint, constriction, contraband, control, controlling, conversion, coolness, corking up, crackdown, cramp, crushing, curtain, defense mechanism, delay, denial, deracination, detachment, detainment, detention, disallowance, discontinuation, discreetness, discretion, distance, domestication, elimination, embargo, end, ending, eradication, exclusion, expressionlessness, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, fixation, foot-dragging, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, frigidity, frostiness, gentling, guardedness, halt, halting, hampering, hiding, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holding, holding in, holdup, humbling, humiliation, hush-up, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impediment, impersonality, inaccessibility, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, interdictum, interference, interruption, introversion, iron curtain, ironbound security, keeping, law, let, liquidation, locking in, maintenance, mental block, modesty, negation, negativism, no-no, nuisance value, nullification, oath of secrecy, obstructing, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, official secrecy, opposition, pall, precluding, preclusion, prehension, preservation, prevention, prohibiting, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, psychological block, purge, put-down, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, quieting, reduction, refusal, rejection, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, resistance, restraining, restraint, restriction, restrictive covenants, retainment, retardation, retardment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, reticence, reticency, retirement, rooting out, ruling out, seal of secrecy, security, setback, silencing, smashing, smothering, snuffing out, squashing, squeeze, squelching, standoffishness, statute, stifling, stop, stopping, stranglehold, strangling, strangulation, stricture, subdual, subduedness, subduing, sublimation, suffocating, suffocation, sumptuary laws, surcease, symbolization, taboo, taming, tenacity, terminating, termination, throttling, treading down, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, uprooting, veil, veil of secrecy, voiding, withdrawal, withdrawnness, withholding, wraps, zoning, zoning laws

ROGET THESAURUS

suppression

Restraint

N restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.

Destruction

N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.

Concealment

N concealment, hiding, occultation, mystification, seal of secrecy, screen, disguise, masquerade, masked battery, hiding place, cryptography, steganography, freemasonry, stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness, obreption, slyness, latitancy, latitation, seclusion, privacy, secrecy, secretness, incognita, reticence, reserve, mental reserve, reservation, arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision, silence, suppression of truth, underhand dealing, closeness, secretiveness, mystery, latency, snake in the grass, secret, stowaway, concealed, hidden, secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark, cryptic, cryptical, private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate, tortuous, behind a screen, undercover, under an eclipse, in ambush, in hiding, in disguise, in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner, in the shade, in the dark, clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds, invisible, buried, underground, perdu, secluded, undisclosed &c, untold, covert, untraceable, mysterious, irrevealable, inviolable, confidential, esoteric, not to be spoken of, unmentionable, obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline, skulking, surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner, sly, secretive, evasive, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up, close, close as wax, taciturn, secretly, in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners, in the dark, januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos, hugger mugger, a la derobee, under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table, sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine, behind the veil, beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil, hid from mortal vision, into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery, in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence, confidentially, between ourselves, between you and me, between you and me and the bedpost, entre nous, inter nos, under the seal of secrecy, a couvert, underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night, stealthily, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen, incognito, in camera, it must go no further, it will go no further, don't tell a soul, tell it not in Gath, nobody the wiser, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, let it be tenable in your silence still, background information, deep background information, deep background, background session, backgrounder, not for attribution.