suppressed adj

1 kept from public knowledge by various means; [ant: publicized]

2 manifesting or subjected to suppression; "a suppressed press"

3 held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled]

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Verb

suppressed

1. past of suppress

The term Suppression may refer to:

• Oppression
• Censorship
• Voter suppression
• Cultural suppression
• Suppression of religion
• Political suppression
• Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts

Weapons

• Suppressor
• Suppressive fire

Math, science, and technology

• Compton suppression, in nuclear physics
• Free energy suppression and other suppressed technology
• Silence suppression, in telephony
• Suppression subtractive hybridization, in biochemistry
• Transient voltage suppression diode
• Zero suppression, in math and information theory

Health and medicine

• Appetite suppression
• Bone marrow suppression
• Suppression (eye)
• Flash suppression
• Reflux suppressant, in medicine

Other

• Fire fighting ("fire suppression")
• Fire suppression systems
• Suppressed correlative, a logical fallacy
• Suppression of the Society of Jesus
• Tohunga Suppression Act 1907
• Suppression of Communism Act
• Suppressive Person and the book, The Cause of Suppression, about the Church of Scientology concept

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