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suppression — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cancellation noun The act of calling something off or making it void.
  • deletion noun An item that has been or will be deleted.

Senses

suppression is used for these senses in English:

  • cancellation The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
  • deletion The act of deleting. [c. 1600]

cancellation — full definition

  1. noun The act of calling something off or making it void.
  2. noun A mark stamped on a postage stamp to show it has already been used.

deletion — full definition

  1. noun An item that has been or will be deleted.
  2. noun The act of deleting.
  3. noun A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
  4. noun An act of killing or murder.

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