Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of repressing or the state of being repressed.
- noun Psychology The unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of repressing, restraining, or subduing: as, the repression of tumults.
- noun That which represses; check; restraint.
- noun Power of repressing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of repressing, or state of being repressed.
- noun That which represses; check; restraint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
repressing ; state of being repressed. - noun The involuntary
rejection fromconsciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of forcible subjugation
- noun (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- noun the act of repressing; control by holding down
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Examples
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A main demand of the protesters is an end to what they term repression by the secret police, headed in Deraa province by a cousin of Assad, who faces the biggest challenge to his rule since succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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A main demand of the protesters is an end to what they term repression by the secret police, headed in Deraa province by a cousin of Assad.
Thestar.com - Home Page Reuters 2011
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A main demand of the protesters is an end to what they term repression by the secret police, headed in Deraa province by a cousin of Assad.
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There, activists are expected to oppose a long menu of Chinese policies, including what they call repression in Tibet and Beijing's support of oppressive regimes in Sudan and Myanmar.
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Delhi to end what it calls repression in the Indian-ruled part of the state.
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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday condemned what he termed the repression of the Polish minority in neighbouring Belarus, after authorities there cracked down on a Polish group.
Raw Story 2010
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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday condemned what he termed the repression of the Polish minority in neighbouring Belarus, after authorities there cracked down on a Polish group.
Raw Story 2010
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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday condemned what he termed the repression of the
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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday condemned what he termed the repression of the Polish minority in neighbouring Belarus, after authorities there cracked down on a Polish group.
Raw Story 2010
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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday condemned what he termed the repression of the Polish minority in neighbouring Belarus, after authorities there cracked down on a Polish group.
Raw Story 2010
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