to repress
75
6.6
- verb
- /rɪˈprɛs/
:
reprimir
- The deeper down it goes, the deeper we repress this stuff, the darker it gets.
- repressed memory
- repress unwanted emotions
- repressed fantasies
The deeper down it goes, the deeper we repress this stuff, the darker it gets.
- The deeper down it goes, the deeper we repress this stuff, the darker it gets.
- So suppressing it, repressing it became their survival.
- You can't repress it so hard, man.
- And so I always just repressed it my whole life.
- They tend to repress healthy anger.
- That's years from you repressing emotions.
- So yeah, it like it, it requires a level of suppressing, negating, repressing feelings.
- I think it's actually an act of violence against yourself to not express it by repressing it.
- And so it teaches you, first of all, to welcome those thoughts, to not try to repress them, to try and go into them more deeply.
- And I became so angry and bitter and I didn't even know it, You know, I was, I was repressing it.
- And your only true north is that that that like voice within yourself that you either choose to honor or you repress.
- You lose a business, people repress it, Someone has a divorce or an illness.
Examples
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Society cannot live by denying, forgetting, repressing, and obliterating in order to survive.
Academic text (1990) -
He tried to repress his feelings about the breakup, but it was difficult to move on.
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The sort of trash that you or I would repress, you know, hide away from the light.
Fiction book (1998) -
In time, the thought of human blood will make you repress your vampire instincts completely.
Academic text (2013) -
And so I always just repressed it my whole life.
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You can't repress it so hard, man.
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"It's a memory really, usually a repressed memory coming to the surface."
Fiction book (1996) -
Some members of the faculty repressed their feelings and tried to remain objective.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's like everything that was ever repressed in this town is suddenly bubbling up through the ground.
Fiction book (2000) -
I don't know how you keep it all repressed.
Synonyms
108
4.2
Keep yourself from showing feelings or telling others
88
5.8
To hold back feelings or reactions
72
4.6
Keep strong feelings under control so you do not act on them
65
4.5
To stop yourself from showing strong feelings
49
5.3
To hold back a feeling or reaction so it does not show
39
6.0
To stop a feeling or sound from being shown
33
6.7
To limit growth or activity so it cannot continue
24
5.6
To keep strong feelings inside instead of telling others
11
6.3
Make someone unable to act naturally or show feelings
4
5.1
Stop yourself from showing an emotion like tears or laughter
4
7.0
Stop yourself from showing a feeling when you want to cry
2
7.7
To stop yourself from showing strong feelings like sadness or anger
To keep feelings inside instead of showing them
Kept secret on purpose so people do not know about it
To stop yourself remembering something sad or scary on purpose
Antonyms
How Repressed
75
6.6
24
5.6
88
5.8
328
4.1
7
4.1
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Repress comes from the parts re- 'back' and press 'to push'. So to repress feelings is like pushing them back inside, which is why it means holding back emotions or memories.