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Supposition
- noun - a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- the cognitive process of supposing
Suppositive
- - Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.
Suppository
- noun - a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts
Suppressant
- noun - a drug that suppresses appetite
Suppressers
- noun - a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)
- an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents
- someone who suppresses; "dictators are suppressors of free speech"
Suppressing
- verb - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
- control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- put out of one's consciousness
- reduce the incidence or severity of or stop; "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the hemorrhage"
- to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
Suppression
- noun - (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
- the failure to develop some part or organ
Suppressive
- adjective - tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest"
Suppressors
- noun - a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)
- an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents
- someone who suppresses; "dictators are suppressors of free speech"