suppression – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
suppression
n.
act of suppressing, repression; stoppage
Suppression
Suppression may refer to:
- Censorship, the suppression of public communication considered objectionable to the general body of people as determined by a government or media outlet
- Suppression order a type of censorship where a court rules that certain information cannot be published
- Oppression, the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner, also an act or instance of oppressing
- Religious intolerance, intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices by individuals, private groups, government agencies or the whole government
- Suppression of dissent, occurs when an individual or group tries to censor, persecute or otherwise oppress the other party rather than communicate logically
- Suppression of evidence, the act of preventing evidence from being shown in a trial
- Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts, associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Voter suppression, a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote
suppression
Noun
1. (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant
(hypernym) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
(classification) botany, phytology
2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
(synonym) curtailment
(hypernym) restraint
(derivation) restrain, suppress, keep, keep back, hold back
3. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
(synonym) crushing, quelling, stifling
(hypernym) prevention, bar
(hyponym) crackdown
(derivation) suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
4. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
(synonym) inhibition
(hypernym) abstinence
(derivation) suppress, repress
(classification) psychology, psychological science
suppression
nf.
suppression, removal, cancellation, lifting
suppression
n.
potlačení; zamlčení
