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The art of pushing something down so hard it finds another way up.
means The act of forcibly stopping, restraining, or holding back something — a feeling, a fact, a rebellion, a bodily process — so it can't surface or express itself.
from From Latin 'supprimere,' to press down, built from 'sub-' (under) and 'premere' (to press) — the same 'premere' that gives us 'press,' 'pressure,' and 'oppress.' The past participle 'suppressus' became 'suppression,' arriving in English by way of Latin and French. The image baked into the word is literal: something being shoved beneath the surface and held there by sheer force.
- Memory myth
- Decades of research found little proof repressed trauma works
- Volcanic
- Suppressed emotions raise heart rate and blood pressure
- Firefighting
- Decades of fire suppression made forests burn worse
- Immune brakes
- Drugs suppress immunity so transplants aren't rejected
- Ironic rebound
- Suppressed thoughts return more often than ignored ones
operation condor — cia-backed suppression of leftist movements across 6 south american countries, 1970s-1980s, ~60,000 deaths
tiananmen square crackdown — chinese military suppression of pro-democracy protests, june 4 1989, beijing
cointelpro — fbi's systematic suppression of civil rights leaders including mlk, 1956-1971