SUPPRESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suppression mean? 

• SUPPRESSION (noun)
  The noun SUPPRESSION has 4 senses:

1. the failure to develop some part or organ

2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

3. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

4. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

  Familiarity information: SUPPRESSION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPRESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The failure to develop some part or organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("suppression" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

curtailment; suppression

Context example:

a suppression of the newspaper

Hypernyms ("suppression" is a kind of...):

restraint (the act of controlling by restraining someone or something)

Derivation:

suppress (bring under control by force or authority)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crushing; quelling; stifling; suppression

Context example:

the stifling of all dissent

Hypernyms ("suppression" is a kind of...):

bar; prevention (the act of preventing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suppression"):

crackdown (severely repressive actions)

Derivation:

suppress (bring under control by force or authority)

suppress (come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

inhibition; suppression

Hypernyms ("suppression" is a kind of...):

abstinence (act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Derivation:

suppress (put out of one's consciousness)

 Context examples 

This gene may play a role in both the regulation of gene expression and tumor suppression.

(MIR31 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in tumor suppression.

(ANP32C Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This ribonucleotide may play a role in both the regulation of gene transcription and tumor suppression.

(MIR31 Pre-miRNA, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes probable tumor suppressor protein MN1, plays a role in tumor suppression.

(MN1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of aromatase results in the suppression of estrogen-regulated processes.

(Aromatase inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in tumor suppression.

(AIM1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes acidic leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family member C protein, is involved in the tumor suppression of several types of cancer.

(ANP32C wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a prominent role in tumor suppression.

(ANP32D Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase BAP1 protein, plays a role in tumor suppression.

(BAP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein may play a role in the modulation of p53-mediated signaling, tumor suppression and T cell development.

(B-Cell Lymphoma/Leukemia 11B, NCI Thesaurus)