Noah Webster
Suppression
SUPPRES'SION, noun [Latin suppressio.]
1. The act of suppressing, crushing or destroying; as the suppression of a riot, insurrection or tumult.
2. The act of retaining from utterance, vent or disclosure; concealment; as the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence and the like.
3. The retaining of any thing from public notice; as the suppression of a letter or any writing.
4. The stoppage, obstruction or morbid retention of discharges; as the suppression of urine, of diarrhea or other discharge.
5. In grammar or composition, omission; as the suppression of a word.