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suppression

/suh-presh-uhn/US // səˈprɛʃ ən //UK // (səˈprɛʃən) //

镇压,打压,抑制,压制

Related Words

elimination消除,消灭,淘汰,取消overthrow推翻,推翻了,推倒,打倒annihilation湮灭,歼灭,毁灭,消灭obliteration湮灭,湮没,遗忘,销毁defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折abolishment裁撤,废除,裁员,废止overriding覆盖,超越,覆盖性,凌驾suppressing抑制性的,压制的,镇压的,镇压

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of suppressing.
    • : the state of being suppressed.
    • : Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
    • : Botany. the absence of parts normally or usually present due to the action of frost, disease, or insects.
    • : Radio, Electronics. the elimination of a component of a varying emission, as the elimination of a frequency or group of frequencies from a signal.
    • : Electricity. the reduction or elimination of irregular current oscillations or frequencies in a circuit.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounabolition
Synonyms
elimination消除,消灭,淘汰,取消overthrow推翻,推翻了,推倒,打倒abolishment裁撤,废除,裁员,废止annihilation湮灭,歼灭,毁灭,消灭defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折obliteration湮灭,湮没,遗忘,销毁overriding覆盖,超越,覆盖性,凌驾suppressing抑制性的,压制的,镇压的,镇压

Examples

  • During India’s state elections, Logically worked with the Maharashtra Cyber police and the state’s election commission to identify online disinformation that could lead to voter suppression.

  • We’ve got racism issues in this country and these other issues of gun violence and voter suppression.

  • Because many states block people with felony records from voting, the reality that justice is not in fact blind drives voter suppression.

  • However, in 2013, the Supreme Court voted to invalidate certain parts of that act, opening the door to voter suppression.

  • More quantitatively — and related — fire suppression in California is big business, with impressive year-over-year growth.

  • But its far more insidious role was revealed, whether it was gun policies or voter suppression.

  • Among others, they include interference with sleep and suppression of appetite.

  • He predicts that after the March 16 referendum, the suppression of dissidents and even ethnic cleansing could become more common.

  • Democrats shouted “voter suppression;” Republicans warned of “fraud.”

  • He is best known for his brutal suppression of opponents and hardline rule over Zimbabwe.

  • The recent law passed by the Spanish Cortes for the suppression of religious houses, has been strictly enforced here.

  • He desired neither the suppression of hell nor of the guillotine for the disposal of sinners and assassins.

  • His majesty also alluded to a treaty which he had concluded with the Queen of Spain for the suppression of the slave-trade.

  • The true policy would have been the suppression of all secret political societies.

  • In the meantime the university had taken steps to ensure the suppression of heretical books.

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