SUPPRESSIONS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

suppression

noun

sə-ˈpre-shən

as in restraint

the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others learned that suppression of her angry feelings didn't necessarily make them go away

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Recent Examples of suppression However, as powerful as this office is, many underlying causes of today’s metastasizing crisis — climate change, land-use policies, construction costs and fire suppression tactics — lie outside of the commissioner’s direct control. —

Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 15 May 2026 But look at Brooklyn to find voter suppression. —

Adam Davis, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026 Once in office, Putin installed Vadim as an adviser to help consolidate his administration into an autocracy responsible for the suppression of civil liberties, for wars in Chechnya and Ukraine, and for a campaign of disinformation and interference in Western democracies. —

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026 During the committee’s two-day session in Helena this week, council members discussed everything from fire suppression to mule deer management. —

Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for suppression

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Told with exacting restraint yet as layered as the lacquer on an ebony Biedermeier console, this forms a loose triptych with Pawlikowski’s last two features, Ida and Cold War, both of which were set at least partly behind the Iron Curtain.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
For the Dior cruise show in Los Angeles, Peter Philips treated glow with the restraint of good lighting.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 14 May 2026