Word Finder - repressed

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To press again.

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to repress a vinyl record

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Subjected to repression.

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Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.

His body ached with repressed memories and disgust.

In 1902 a movement in favour of local autonomy was repressed by Spanish troops.

Thousands of years of repressed fury bubbled within him.

The man in was quiet, hard working, and at that time, emotionally repressed.

It was repressed after a vigorous resistance.

A small rising after peace (the " Little War " of 1879-1880) was easily repressed.

In that year the first plot against the Viscontian rule, hatched by the twelve and the Salimbeni and fomented by the Florentines, was violently repressed, and caused the twelve to be again driven from office; but in the following year a special balia, created in consequence of that riot, annulled the ducal suzerainty and restored the liberties of Siena.

The rebellion broke out afresh in the autumn of 1838, but it was soon repressed.

Artaxerxes repressed the rebellion with great cruelty and destroyed the town.

An insurrection in 1854 was at once repressed.

His last years were spent amid a succession of palace conspiracies, repressed with cruelty.

What is called training is the guiding of the branches of a tree or plant in certain positions which they would not naturally assume, the object being partly to secure their full exposure to light, and partly to regulate the flow and distribution of the sap. To secure the former object, the branches must be so fixed as to shade each other as little as possible; and to realize the second, the branches must have given to them an upward or downward direction, as they may require to be encouraged or repressed.

Thus stimulated, the increasing disaffection culminated in the rebellion of 1798, which was sternly and cruelly repressed.

In 1438 he was driven with the duchess out of Bruges by the revolted citizens, a revolt which he repressed with great severity.

The only other event of importance in the reign of Wathiq was a rising of the Arabian tribes in the environs of Medina, which the Turkish general Bogha with difficulty repressed.

This proceeding led to two insurrections in Babylon (probably in 484 and 479 n.c.), which were speedily repressed.

Galeshwe was arrested and the rebellion repressed.

It was inevitable that, in proportion as this casuistry assumed the character of a systematic penal jurisprudence, its precise determination of the limits between the prohibited and the allowable, with all doubtful points closely scrutinized and illustrated by fictitious cases, would have a tendency to weaken the moral sensibilities of ordinary minds; the greater the industry spent in deducing conclusions from the diverse authorities, the greater necessarily became the number of points on which doctors disagreed; and the central authority that might have repressed serious divergences was wanting in the period of moral weakness'- that the church went through after the death of Boniface Viii.

This revolutionary outbreak was swiftly and severely repressed.

The condition of northern France was rendered more desperate by the outbreak (MayJune 1358) of the peasant revolt known as the Jacquerie, which was repressed with a barbarity far exceeding the excesses of the rebels.

You wouldn't believe the amount of repressed anger most Immortals have.

Do you think men feel they must keep their emotions repressed?

Any attempt to organize was brutally and violently repressed.

Brazilâs Workers Party government has been tainted by corruption allegations, and has heavily repressed movements like the Sem Terra, of landless peasants.

At independence, the winners assured the reins of political power, while the losers were often repressed, imprisoned or silenced.

Ginger Lynn is Audrey, a sexually repressed working girl whose love life is going nowhere.

So much contemporary drama seems to be about men who are either emotionally repressed or losing it completely.

And in writing this book I realized I was writing about this deeply repressed part of myself.

Apart from the judo, there was nothing outwardly special about this rather repressed boy.

As a consequence, many people become emotionally repressed.

This highlights the importance of unconscious forces that are normally kept repressed.

The client gains self-awareness by analyzing behavior and body language and giving expression to repressed feelings.

Could it be that vicarious display is the necessary trade-off for repressed behavior?

He promised, indeed, a consultative council of state, and granted an amnesty from which no less than 25,000 persons were excluded; but on his return to Rome (12th April 1850), after he was quite certain that France had given up all idea of imposing constitutional limitations on him, he re-established his government on the old lines of priestly absolutism, and, devoting himself to religious practices, left political affairs mostly to the astute cardinal Antonelli, who repressed with great severity the political agitation which still continued.

Martial law was proclaimed; the disturbances were repressed with great severity; and the treatment of the missionary Smith, which was taken up and handled with great ability by Brougham, awakened strong feeling in England against the planters.

Nobles, judges, notaries and populace rose in frequent revolt, while the nine defended their state (1295-1309) by a strong body of citizen militia divided into terzieri (sections) and contrade (wards), and violently repressed these attempts.

The first two names he earned by the ferocity with which he repressed the disorder of the nobles after a long minority; the third by his victory over the last formidable African invasion of Spain in 1340.

Australian Ledger produces a brilliant performance as a tormented soul repressed by a homophobic society.

Other things we might actively avoid attending to because we find them painful or disturbing - the repressed unconscious.

After the later rebellion in support of ' Bonnie Prince Charlie ' in 1745 the area was seriously repressed for some 40 years.

A repressed sexuality or perhaps impotence is hinted at.

She was heavily sedated, he was a repressed homosexual.

The full release of repressed emotions may not be achieved in a single session.

Repressed anger, hostility or sexual tensions unknowingly released by an unhappy subject wreak havoc.

I 've been able to go into my own repressed memories to the night my sister disappeared.

Set in a small insular town in America 's Deep South, this is a gripping drama of smoldering and repressed passion.

Repressed memory syndrome, stories of satanic abuse and ufo abduction scenarios all relate to that sense of having to distrust personal experience.

In some ways dreams are repressed thoughts that are released during the dream cycle as a way to relax and see things from a different perspective than we might when we are awake.

These early theories centered on the 19th century case of von Zastow, a convicted rapist whose excessive sleepiness attributed to excessive masturbation and repressed homosexuality.

Repressed desires and unconscious fears show up in dreams in Freudian theory.