suppression

plural suppressions

1. countableuncountableThe act or instance of suppressing.

   The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

   1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos

2. countableuncountableThe state of being suppressed.
3. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. countableuncountablegovernmentThe entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.

   In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.

   1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230

5. countableuncountableA subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.