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Synonyms for suppression
The synonym for suppression recorded in this bank is curtailment, in the sense "the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for suppression
- curtailmentnoun, in the sense "the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and suppression carries one sense so far.
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
A suppression of the newspaper.
The true synonym
curtailment
Same sentence, swapped: A curtailment of the newspaper.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where suppression stands in the sentence above.
- damper
- bridle
- collar
Where suppression turns up in the game
suppression is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where suppression is the trap
- collarnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is leash, in the sense "a figurative restraint", and suppression is one of the three tiles that lose.
- restrictionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is confinement, in the sense "the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)", so suppression is there to be ruled out.
Play suppression
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so suppression reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Summit outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
suppression is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.