suppression
A2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The brain's active ignoring of the image from one eye to avoid double vision.
Suppression of the deviating eye explained why she did not report seeing double.
Law noun
The prevention of evidence from being disclosed or used.
Suppression of the search results followed from the officers' failure to obtain a warrant.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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