noun

• The act or instance of suppressing.
• The state of being suppressed.
• (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
• (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
• (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.