suppression
/səˈpɹɛʃən/ noun C1- The act or instance of suppressing.
- The state of being suppressed.
- A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
Plural suppressions
From the library
I’m in two dialogues--‘The Society for the Suppression of Gossip’ and ‘The Fairy Queen.
I alone know the absolute truth of the matter, and I am satisfied that the time has come when no good purpose is to be served by its suppression.
“So far as your efforts are directed towards the suppression of crime, sir, they must have the support of every reasonable member of the community, though I cannot doubt that the official machinery is amply sufficient for the purpose.
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