0 to not allow something, especially feelings, to be expressed: --
1 to prevent feelings, desires, or ideas from being expressed: --
The government repressed all reports from the region.
In the end, it was impossible to repress her emotions.
The government controls and represses the rural masses, which heavily depend on public services for their daily survival.
In fact, the passions kindled by the sight of difference are depicted as so offensive, frightening, and unacceptable, that they have to be repressed.
In this symbolic space the repressed, unconscious passions of early childhood become manifest in secondary forms.
If one group or leader is repressed, the network itself continues to function.
Her signature chord has deferred, even repressed, her need to take this position, but has also guaranteed it.
Between 1964 and 1974 a repressed and demoralised opposition could not muster the strength to challenge the military.
We have become so concerned with material achievement that these instinctive life forces which are responsible for true happiness have been ignored or repressed.
The group discussions corroborate previous insights by attesting that conflict in public discussion is generally latent and often repressed.
