Definition of Repression

Noun

  • the act of repressing
    control by holding down
    "his goal was the repression of insolence"
  • (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
  • a state of forcible subjugation
    "the long repression of Christian sects"
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568 unscramble word found using the letters repression.

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