Suppression Synonyms

sə-prĕshən
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crushing
  2. quelling
  3. stifling

Words Related to Suppression

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Suppression Sentence Examples

  • In some places the number has even been diminished by the suppression of private educational institutes.

  • It is not to be supposed that either Amos or Isaiah would have countenanced the total suppression of all sacrificial observance.

  • An early form of the name is Patricsey or Peter's Island; the manor at the time of the Domesday survey, and until the suppression of the monasteries, belonging to the abbey of St Peter, Westminster.

  • Its chapel became the parish church on the suppression of the monasteries.

  • P Europe, after the suppression of a revolt of the governor of Damascus, who had thought to take advantage of the new sultan's accession to restore the independent rule of the Circassian chiefs.

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