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Suppressive vs Suppressing - What's the difference?

suppressive | suppressing |

As an adjective suppressive

is that serves to suppress.

As a verb suppressing is

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As a noun suppressing is

the act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.

suppressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That serves to suppress

    • suppressing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , 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.