Usually means: Deliberate reduction or elimination process.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word suppression:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppression: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. suppression: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suppression: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suppression: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suppression: Vocabulary.com
  6. Suppression, suppression: Wordnik
  7. suppression: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. suppression: Wiktionary
  9. suppression: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. suppression: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. suppression: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suppression: Dictionary.com
  13. suppression: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Suppression (eye), Suppression: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Suppression: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. suppression: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. suppression: Rhymezone
  18. Suppression: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. suppression: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. suppression: Free Dictionary
  21. suppression: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. suppression: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suppression: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suppression: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. Suppression: Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  6. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  8. suppression: Medical dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppression: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suppression)

noun:  The act or instance of suppressing.
noun:  The state of being suppressed.
noun:  (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
noun:  (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
noun:  (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

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