1. The failure to develop some part or organ 
2. The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
   "a suppression of the newspaper"
   - curtailment 
3. Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
   "the suppression of heresy"
   - crushing, quelling, stifling 
4. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
   - inhibition

Derived forms: suppressions

See also: suppress

Type of: abstinence, bar, development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, prevention, restraint

Encyclopedia: Suppression

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