suppression

Other forms of suppression

plural

suppressions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about suppression

What does suppression mean?

suppression means "the failure to develop some part or organ". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suppression?

suppression has 3 syllables: sup-pres-sion. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /səˈpɹɛʃən/.

What is another word for suppression?

Close synonyms include curtailment, crushing, quelling, stifling, inhibition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suppression a common word?

suppression is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with suppression?

6 words rhyme with suppression. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.