Repressed
adjective
1.
subjected to, affected by, or characteristic of psychological repression:
repressed emotional conflicts.
verb (used with or without object)
1.
to press again or anew.
verb (used with object)
1.
to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
2.
to keep down or suppress (anything objectionable).
3.
to put down or quell (sedition, disorder, etc.).
4.
to reduce (persons) to subjection.
5.
Psychoanalysis. to reject (painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses) from the conscious mind.
verb (used without object)
6.
to initiate or undergo repression.
adjective
1.
(of a person) repressing feelings, instincts, desires, etc
verb (transitive)
1.
to keep (feelings, etc) under control; suppress or restrain: to repress a desire
2.
to put into a state of subjugation: to repress a people
3.
(psychoanal) to banish (thoughts and impulses that conflict with conventional standards of conduct) from one’s conscious mind
repressed adj.
Being subjected to or characterized by repression.
repress re·press (rĭ-prěs’)
v. re·pressed, re·press·ing, re·press·es
To hold back by an act of volition.
To exclude something from the conscious mind.
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