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- abduction,
- apprehension,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- bottling up,
- capture,
- catch,
- catching,
- clairvoyance,
- collaring,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- corking up,
- coup,
- dragnet,
- forcible seizure,
- foreknowledge,
- grab,
- grabbing,
- grasp,
- grip,
- hold,
- holding,
- holding in,
- ideation,
- inhibition,
- intellection,
- intelligence,
- keeping,
- kidnapping,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- mastery,
- mental grasp,
- nabbing,
- picking up,
- power grab,
- precognition,
- preservation,
- repression,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- running in,
- savvy,
- seizure,
- seizure of power,
- snatch,
- snatching,
- suppression,
- taking in,
- taking into custody,
- tenacity,
- understanding,
- wisdom
- retention
collapse - the act of retaining something related words >
- abnegation,
- adhesiveness,
- bullheadedness,
- camera-eye,
- cohesiveness,
- consistency,
- contradiction,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disobedience,
- dissent,
- eidetic memory,
- gluiness,
- glutinosity,
- gumminess,
- holding back,
- memory span,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- obstinacy,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- photographic memory,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- retentive memory,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- snugness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stickiness,
- stubbornness,
- tackiness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- thumbs-down,
- tightness,
- total memory,
- total recall,
- toughness,
- turndown,
- unwillingness,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- withholding
- preservation
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- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
- a process that saves organic substances from decay
- the condition of being (well or ill) preserved related words >
- bottling up,
- care,
- cold storage,
- conservancy,
- conservation,
- continuation,
- corking up,
- cover,
- creation,
- custody,
- dead storage,
- defense,
- dispensation,
- dry storage,
- eternal re-creation,
- eternal return,
- eternalization,
- eye,
- guard,
- guardianship,
- holding,
- holding in,
- immortalization,
- inhibition,
- keeping,
- lee,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- perpetuating,
- perpetuation,
- prehension,
- preserval,
- protecting,
- protection,
- protective custody,
- providence,
- refuge,
- repression,
- retaining,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- safeguard,
- safeguarding,
- safekeeping,
- safety,
- salvation,
- saving,
- security,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shelf-room,
- shelter,
- shield,
- steady-state universe,
- storage,
- storage space,
- stowage,
- suppression,
- sustentation,
- tenacity,
- upkeep,
- visitations of providence,
- ward,
- warehousing,
- watchful eye
- inhibition
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- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve" related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- ban,
- bar,
- barrier,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- censorship,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- corking up,
- cramp,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- deceleration,
- defence,
- delay,
- denial,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disallowance,
- embargo,
- exclusion,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- keeping,
- law,
- legal restraint,
- let,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- monopoly,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibition,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- psychological block,
- rationing,
- refusal,
- rein,
- rejection,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- retrenchment,
- ruling out,
- self-consciousness,
- self-control,
- setback,
- slowing down,
- squeeze,
- statute,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tariff wall,
- tenacity,
- thought control,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
- maintenance
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- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
- means of maintenance of a family or group related words >
- TLC,
- abidingness,
- age,
- aid,
- alimentation,
- alimony,
- allowance,
- antiquity,
- backing,
- bottling up,
- bread,
- care,
- carriage,
- carrying,
- conservancy,
- conservation,
- conservationism,
- constancy,
- continualness,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- contribution,
- corking up,
- daily bread,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- diuturnity,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- economic support,
- endowment,
- endurance,
- environmental conservation,
- extension,
- forest conservation,
- forest management,
- holding,
- holding in,
- inhibition,
- keep,
- keeping,
- lastingness,
- lengthening,
- livelihood,
- living,
- locking in,
- long standing,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- longevity,
- maintaining,
- manna,
- meat,
- moral support,
- mothering,
- nourishment,
- nurture,
- paying the bills,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- permanence,
- perpetuation,
- perpetuity,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- prehension,
- preserval,
- preservation,
- price support,
- progress,
- progression,
- prolongation,
- protection,
- protraction,
- provision,
- psychological support,
- pursuance,
- reliance,
- repetition,
- repression,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- run,
- safekeeping,
- salt,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- saving,
- security blanket,
- soil conservation,
- stability,
- standing,
- standing treat,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- stipend,
- straight course,
- stream conservation,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subsistence,
- subvention,
- support,
- supportive relationship,
- supportive therapy,
- suppression,
- survival,
- survivance,
- sustained action,
- sustaining,
- sustainment,
- sustenance,
- sustentation,
- tenacity,
- tender loving care,
- treat,
- uninterrupted course,
- unremittingness,
- upholding,
- upkeep,
- water conservation,
- way,
- wetlands conservation,
- wildlife conservation
- keeping
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- conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion" related words >
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- acquiescence,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- adherence,
- adjustment,
- administration,
- agreement,
- auspices,
- balance,
- bilateral symmetry,
- bottling up,
- care,
- carrying out,
- charge,
- clinging,
- compliance,
- conformance,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- conservancy,
- conservation,
- conservational,
- conservationism,
- conservationist,
- conservative,
- conservatory,
- conserving,
- consistency,
- conventionality,
- corking up,
- correspondence,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- discharge,
- dynamic symmetry,
- environmental conservation,
- equality,
- equilibrium,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- evenness,
- execution,
- finish,
- flexibility,
- forest conservation,
- forest management,
- fulfillment,
- governance,
- government,
- grasping,
- gripping,
- guardianship,
- guarding,
- guidance,
- hands,
- harmony,
- heed,
- heeding,
- hold,
- holding,
- holding in,
- inhibition,
- jurisdiction,
- keep,
- line,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- malleability,
- management,
- ministry,
- multilateral symmetry,
- obedience,
- observance,
- observation,
- orthodoxy,
- oversight,
- parallelism,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronage,
- performance,
- pliancy,
- polarity,
- practice,
- prehension,
- preserval,
- preservation,
- preservative,
- preservatory,
- preserving,
- preventive custody,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- protection,
- protective,
- protective custody,
- protectorship,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- regularity,
- repression,
- respect,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentive,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- safe hands,
- safekeeping,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- satisfaction,
- saving,
- shapeliness,
- soil conservation,
- stewardship,
- stream conservation,
- strictness,
- support,
- suppression,
- sustentation,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- tenacious,
- tenacity,
- traditionalism,
- trilateral symmetry,
- trust,
- tutelage,
- uniformity,
- upkeep,
- ward,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- watch and ward,
- water conservation,
- wetlands conservation,
- wildlife conservation,
- wing
- absolute interest,
- absorbing,
- adverse possession,
- alodium,
- arresting,
- attractive,
- bearing,
- benefit,
- blessed with,
- block,
- board lot,
- bolstering,
- bottling up,
- bracing,
- burdened,
- burgage,
- buttressing,
- carrying,
- claim,
- clinging,
- colony,
- common,
- compelling,
- compulsive,
- consuming,
- contingent interest,
- corking up,
- de facto,
- de jure,
- dependency,
- derivative title,
- driving,
- dummy share,
- easement,
- enchanting,
- enfeoffed,
- engaging,
- engrossing,
- enthralling,
- equitable interest,
- equity,
- estate,
- even lot,
- fascinating,
- fee fief,
- fee position,
- fee simple,
- fee simple absolute,
- fee simple conditional,
- fee simple defeasible,
- fee simple determinable,
- fee tail,
- feodum,
- feud,
- fiefdom,
- fractional lot,
- frankalmoign,
- free socage,
- freehold,
- full lot,
- gavelkind,
- grasping,
- gripping,
- having,
- having and holding,
- having title to,
- hold,
- holding in,
- holdings,
- hypnotic,
- impelling,
- in possession of,
- inhibition,
- interest,
- keeping,
- knight service,
- landed,
- landholding,
- landowning,
- lay fee,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legal claim,
- legal possession,
- limitation,
- locking in,
- lot,
- magnetic,
- maintaining,
- maintenance,
- mandate,
- master of,
- mesmeric,
- mesmerizing,
- obsessing,
- obsessional,
- obsessive,
- occupancy,
- occupation,
- occupying,
- odd lot,
- original title,
- owning,
- part,
- percentage,
- possessed of,
- possessing,
- possession,
- preference share,
- prehension,
- preoccupancy,
- preoccupation,
- preoccupying,
- prepossession,
- prescription,
- preservation,
- propertied,
- property,
- property rights,
- property-owning,
- propping,
- proprietary rights,
- repression,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentive,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- right,
- right of entry,
- round lot,
- seisin,
- seized of,
- settlement,
- share,
- shoring,
- socage,
- spellbinding,
- squatting,
- stake,
- stockholding,
- stockholdings,
- strict settlement,
- sublease,
- supporting,
- supportive,
- suppression,
- suspensory,
- sustaining,
- sustentative,
- tenacious,
- tenacity,
- tenancy,
- tenantry,
- tenure,
- tenure in chivalry,
- tenured,
- title,
- trust,
- underlease,
- undertenancy,
- upholding,
- use,
- usucapion,
- vested interest,
- villein socage,
- villeinhold,
- villenage,
- worth
- repression
collapse
- the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects" related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- aloofness,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- backwardness,
- bamboo curtain,
- ban,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bashfulness,
- blackout,
- blankness,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- censorship,
- check,
- chilliness,
- choking,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coldness,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- conversion,
- coolness,
- corking up,
- crackdown,
- cramp,
- crushing,
- curb,
- curtain,
- defense mechanism,
- delay,
- denial,
- detachment,
- detainment,
- detention,
- deterring,
- disallowance,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- distance,
- embargo,
- exclusion,
- expressionlessness,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- frustrating,
- frustration,
- guardedness,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- hush-up,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impediment,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- introversion,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- keeping,
- law,
- let,
- limitation,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- mental block,
- modesty,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- oath of secrecy,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- official secrecy,
- opposition,
- pall,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibition,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- psychological block,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- remoteness,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- ruling out,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- setback,
- smashing,
- smothering,
- squashing,
- squeeze,
- squelching,
- standoffishness,
- statute,
- stifling,
- stranglehold,
- strangling,
- stricture,
- subdual,
- subduedness,
- subjugation,
- sublimation,
- suffocating,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- symbolization,
- taboo,
- tenacity,
- throttling,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- wraps,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
- adhesiveness,
- application,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- balkiness,
- bigotry,
- bottling up,
- bulldog courage,
- bulldog tenacity,
- bullheadedness,
- clabbering,
- clamminess,
- cling,
- clotting,
- coagulation,
- cohesiveness,
- colloidality,
- commitment,
- concentration,
- consistency,
- constancy,
- corking up,
- curdling,
- decidedness,
- decision,
- decisiveness,
- dedication,
- definiteness,
- determinateness,
- determination,
- determinedness,
- devotion,
- diligence,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- dogmatism,
- doughiness,
- durability,
- earnestness,
- endurance,
- engrossment,
- fanaticism,
- fidelity,
- firmness,
- fixed mind,
- fortitude,
- gameness,
- gaminess,
- gelatinity,
- gelatinousness,
- gluelikeness,
- gluiness,
- glutinosity,
- glutinousness,
- grit,
- grittiness,
- gumlikeness,
- gumminess,
- hardheadedness,
- hardihood,
- hardiness,
- hardness,
- headstrongness,
- heaviness,
- holding,
- holding in,
- incrassation,
- indefatigability,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- inflexibility,
- inflexible will,
- infrangibility,
- inhibition,
- insistence,
- insistency,
- inspissation,
- intolerance,
- intransigence,
- jellification,
- jellylikeness,
- keeping,
- lastingness,
- leatherlikeness,
- lentor,
- locking in,
- loyalty,
- maintenance,
- mettlesomeness,
- mucilaginousness,
- mulishness,
- nerviness,
- obduracy,
- obstinacy,
- obstinateness,
- opinionatedness,
- overzealousness,
- pastiness,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- permanence,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pigheadedness,
- plodding,
- pluckiness,
- plugging,
- power,
- prehension,
- preoccupation,
- preservation,
- purpose,
- purposefulness,
- relentlessness,
- repression,
- resilience,
- resistance,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- resolvedness,
- restiveness,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- rigidity,
- ropiness,
- sand,
- sedulity,
- sedulousness,
- self-will,
- seriousness,
- sincerity,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slabbiness,
- sliminess,
- slogging,
- snugness,
- spissitude,
- spunkiness,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staunchness,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stickiness,
- stiff neck,
- stiff-neckedness,
- stiffness,
- stodginess,
- strength,
- stringiness,
- strongheadness,
- stubbornness,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- suppression,
- syrupiness,
- tackiness,
- tenaciousness,
- thickening,
- thickness,
- tightness,
- tirelessness,
- total commitment,
- toughness,
- treacliness,
- unbreakability,
- unbreakableness,
- uncompromisingness,
- uncooperativeness,
- unregenerateness,
- unremittingness,
- unswerving attention,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- viscousness,
- vitality,
- will,
- willfulness
- suppression
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- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
- (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- aloofness,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- backwardness,
- bamboo curtain,
- ban,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bashfulness,
- blackout,
- blankness,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- breaking,
- ceasing,
- censoring,
- censorship,
- cessation,
- check,
- checking,
- chilliness,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coldness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- conquering,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- controlling,
- conversion,
- coolness,
- corking up,
- crackdown,
- cramp,
- crushing,
- curtain,
- defense mechanism,
- delay,
- denial,
- deracination,
- detachment,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disallowance,
- discontinuation,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- distance,
- domestication,
- elimination,
- embargo,
- end,
- ending,
- eradication,
- exclusion,
- expressionlessness,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- gentling,
- guardedness,
- halt,
- halting,
- hampering,
- hiding,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- humbling,
- humiliation,
- hush-up,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impediment,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdicting,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- introversion,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- keeping,
- law,
- let,
- liquidation,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- mental block,
- modesty,
- negation,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- nullification,
- oath of secrecy,
- obstructing,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- official secrecy,
- opposition,
- pall,
- precluding,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibiting,
- prohibition,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- psychological block,
- purge,
- put-down,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- remoteness,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resistance,
- restraining,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- rooting out,
- ruling out,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- setback,
- silencing,
- smashing,
- smothering,
- snuffing out,
- squashing,
- squeeze,
- squelching,
- standoffishness,
- statute,
- stifling,
- stop,
- stopping,
- stranglehold,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- stricture,
- subdual,
- subduedness,
- subduing,
- sublimation,
- suffocating,
- suffocation,
- sumptuary laws,
- surcease,
- symbolization,
- taboo,
- taming,
- tenacity,
- terminating,
- termination,
- throttling,
- treading down,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- uprooting,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- voiding,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- withholding,
- wraps,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
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