1
: subjected to or marked by repression
2
: characterized by restraint
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Examples of repressed in a Sentence
a 19th-century church in the repressed style favored by the strict religious sect
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But a few protests have been repressed, according to rights groups and witnesses, and dozens of protesters have been arrested, including a group of 13 in the city of Sale and an activist named Abdul Rahman Zankad, who had criticized Morocco’s normalization agreement with Israel on Facebook.
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Emad Mekay, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2024
Edwin, who died in 1916, is formal, reserved, repressed and orderly.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
And tensions are high in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where electoral protests have been violently repressed.
—Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
Benzion’s arrival heralds, for Blum, the return of the repressed.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
Yew’s direction is artfully restrained, as keeping with the novel and its highly repressed characters.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
Two common solutions were the fear of pregnancy and the repressed desire for fellatio.
—Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
Another theme buried within Jonah is how our repressed memories are most likely to come up in generic liminal spaces.
—Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
This underrated indie comedy transports Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, and Aubrey Plaza and all their modern comedic sensibilities to 1347 Italy, with the trio playing repressed nuns.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2023
Emad Mekay, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2024
Edwin, who died in 1916, is formal, reserved, repressed and orderly.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
And tensions are high in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where electoral protests have been violently repressed.
—Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
Benzion’s arrival heralds, for Blum, the return of the repressed.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
Yew’s direction is artfully restrained, as keeping with the novel and its highly repressed characters.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
Two common solutions were the fear of pregnancy and the repressed desire for fellatio.
—Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
Another theme buried within Jonah is how our repressed memories are most likely to come up in generic liminal spaces.
—Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
This underrated indie comedy transports Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, and Aubrey Plaza and all their modern comedic sensibilities to 1347 Italy, with the trio playing repressed nuns.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2023
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“Repressed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repressed. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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repressed
adjective
re·pressed
ri-ˈprest 
1
: subjected to or marked by repression
a repressed child
2
: characterized by a keeping in check
Medical Definition
repressed
adjective
re·pressed
ri-ˈprest
: subjected to or marked by repression
a repressed child
repressed anger
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