repressed
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6.5
- adjective
- /rɪˈprɛst/
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reprimido
- When she became a single mother of two children, Carrie felt economically and personally repressed, and she felt there were things that did not allow her to move ahead:
This field of hurt, then it's repressed toxic energy.
- This field of hurt, then it's repressed toxic energy.
- The guilt, shame and repressed sexuality are so manifested in the hips.
- It's like you're you're neurotic and you're dependent and you're repressed because you're immature and harmless.
- And the non violence is we're particularly extreme in how repressed we are in terms of reactive violence.
- And this is the revenge or the return of the repressed.
- So, so it, it is useful, I think, to, to do, to kind of release these repressed memories.
- It almost feels like like if you were to, you know, people talk about like repressed trauma, repressed memories and stuff like that, right?
- The internal state is whether you are stressed, depressed, anxious, lonely, experiencing repressed rage.
- When they're held down and repressed, they become quite dangerous, but when you let them out, it's not so bad.
- It's just something about that repressed Dick that she needs.
Examples
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It has nothing to do with you to hold that private for so long, to harbor that amount of repressed emotion.
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Trapped, repressed feelings, mistakes, and false appearances.
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At the time, people were feeling so repressed and it was dangerous.
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I read... a novel once about a woman, a very repressed woman.
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It's something he has completely blocked out and repressed due to the trauma.
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If they challenge the ruling interests, they remain alternative, oppositional, or repressed.
Academic text (2010) -
The truth is that P'tar'houn-Hoc would be alive today if their society wasn't so repressed.
Fiction book (1998) -
Yes, a lot of people believe, mistakenly, that hypnosis is a valid tool for uncovering repressed or hidden memories.
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Growing up in a strict household, he often felt repressed and unable to express his true feelings.
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Many artists in the community felt repressed by the restrictive cultural norms that limited their creativity.
Synonyms
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5.4
Having strong feelings that are kept inside and not shown
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7.9
Not willing to talk about thoughts or feelings easily
Kept secret on purpose so people do not know about it
A sound, action, or feeling that is soft and held back so it does not fully show
Held back so it is not fully shown or said
Holding back your feelings so you rarely show them
Unable to act naturally because you feel shy or embarrassed
Tense and not able to show normal feelings
Not showing feelings openly so others cannot tell how they feel
Antonyms
How Repressed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Repressed comes from the parts re- meaning 'back' and press meaning 'to push', like in pressure. So repressed feelings are those that are 'pushed back' and not allowed to come out.