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CLAMPDOWN |
Suppression |
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ABEYANCE |
Suspension; temporary suppression. |
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SMOTHER |
A state of suppression. |
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ISCHURY |
A retention or suppression of urine. |
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AMENORRHOEA |
Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge. |
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SUPPRESSION |
Omission; as, the suppression of a word. |
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ANTIGALASTIC |
Causing a diminution or a suppression of the
secretion of milk. |
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STUPOR |
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression
of sense or feeling; lethargy. |
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CENANTHY |
The absence or suppression of the essential organs
(stamens and pistil) in a flower. |
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CONCEALMENT |
Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in
justice ought to be made known. |
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CANCEL |
The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of
a printed page or pages. |
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ECTHLIPSIS |
The dropping out or suppression from a word of a
consonant, with or without a vowel. |
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SUBREPTION |
The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair
representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. |
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EXTINCTION |
State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be;
destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a
quarrel, of claim. |
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ABATEMENT |
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a
lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as,
the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. |
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EXTINGUISHMENT |
...ching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression;
destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of
disc... |
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DISTRIBUTION |
...d to
and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz.,
admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and
compr... |
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ELISON |
The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for
the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final
vowel standin... |
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METEMPTOSIS |
The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent
the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression
of the bissextile day... |