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Suppressing vs Avoiding - What's the difference?

suppressing | avoiding |

As verbs the difference between suppressing and avoiding

is that suppressing is while avoiding is .

As nouns the difference between suppressing and avoiding

is that suppressing is the act by which something is suppressed; a suppression while avoiding is avoidance.

suppressing

English

Verb

(head)
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    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.

    • avoiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • Have you been avoiding me?'' ''(as progressive form of avoid)
    I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact.'' ''(as present participle)
    I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact.'' ''(as gerund)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • avoidance
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