| Noun | 1. | suppression - (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plantgrowing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" | |
| 2. | suppression - the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"restraint - the of act controlling by restraining someone or something; "the unlawful restraint of trade" | |
| 3. | suppression - forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"prevention, bar - the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" | |
| 4. | suppression - (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desiresabstinence - act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | |