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What does suppressive mean?

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Adjective
  1. That serves to suppress
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The obvious need was for suppressive counter-battery artillery fire and more infantry support weapons such as mortars and grenades.
If buildings are being bombarded by suppressive fire, they destruct flowingly like a real building would.
Several studies have been conducted to evaluate the activity of PCK3145 as a tumor suppressive agent of prostatic adenocarcinoma.
As soon as the suppressive policy relaxed, however, religious revivals burst through the vast land.
Why do we not have suppressive vaccination which would lead to the final eradication of the disease?
And they slowly, painfully, retaught themselves the importance of combined arms and the tight integration of suppressive fire with movement.

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