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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
repress . - adjective
Subjected torepression . - adjective medicine Showing the
suppression ofemotions orimpulses . - verb
Pressed again.
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- adjective characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions
Etymologies
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Examples
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As Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University, wrote in the Financial Times: "The reality being repressed is that the western world is suffering a crisis of indebtedness."
The credit crunch will do for Margaret Thatcher's reputation 2009
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While the flames may be an expression of repressed sexuality, the movie as a whole is anything but pat.
'Apes': Something to Thump Chests About Joe Morgenstern 2011
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This movement was again repressed in 1981 by Deng Xiaoping.
Global Voices in English » China: The democracy movement since 1989 2009
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Her desire must remain repressed, however; Dorriforth is a father substitute to her, and, moreover, a priest of a different religion.
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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So many groups remain repressed in every country in this world - because of their gender, or race, or political affiliation, or because they have a disease or a condition that is considered a stigma, or for so many other reasons.
Archive 2007-08-01 Nupur 2007
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I was trying to suggest that part of the reason that gay people end up being repressed is due to the influence of those groups that demonize homosexuality: namely, Republicans and fundamentalists.
… the Hell? Republican sex scandals « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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Todd Mason, raised in repressed New England said ...
I Never Had any Teachers Like This Bill Crider 2007
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This is a core belief, normally unconscious, and recognition of it usually brings up what Freud called the repressed, though Freud elicited repressed material and dealt with it in ways very different from Hakomi.
Craig K. Comstock: Remembering A Buddhist Psychotherapy Pioneer Craig K. Comstock 2011
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This is a core belief, normally unconscious, and recognition of it usually brings up what Freud called the repressed, though Freud elicited repressed material and dealt with it in ways very different from Hakomi.
Craig K. Comstock: Remembering A Buddhist Psychotherapy Pioneer Craig K. Comstock 2011
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Our "shadow," as C.G. Jung called the repressed hidden and often projected aspect of the personality, tends to assume a life of its own because it is composed of the parts of myself I don't acknowledge and therefore can't integrate into my conscious life.
John Stanley: Compassion And The Shadow John Stanley 2011
dailyword commented on the word repressed
Watson claims that Holmes tends to do this a lot.
August 10, 2012