suppression, curtailment - the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" --2is a kind ofrestraint
suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling - forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" --3is a kind ofprevention, bar --3has particulars: crackdown