repress
Keep forcibly contained
Repress means to hold back or suppress.
You might repress a laugh, a memory, or a rebellious faction.
In psychology, to repress is to push uncomfortable thoughts or feelings out of conscious awareness: He repressed memories of the accident.
Governments repress dissent; individuals repress emotions.
The word suggests forceful containment—what's repressed doesn't disappear but remains under pressure.
Forcibly put an end to
- bottleContainer for liquids
- stifleSuppress or restrain
- smotherDeprive of air
- restrainLimit freedom of movement
contain · inhibit · deny · bury · internalize · swallow · hold back · push down
Forcibly put an end to
stifle · silence · put down · stamp out · extinguish · defeat · overcome · pacify
Not awake or aware
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
buried · latent · subconscious · defense mechanism · Freudian · memory · childhood · therapy
Oppressive, absolute governance
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- despotismAbsolute one-person rule
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
subjugation · domination · oppression · persecution · censorship · silencing · crackdown · martial law
suppress
Forcibly put an end to
restrain · contain · inhibit · deny · bury · internalize · swallow · hold back · push down · stuff
suppress
Forcibly put an end to
quash · stifle · silence · put down · stamp out · extinguish · defeat · overcome · pacify · control
unconscious
Not awake or aware
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- denialRefusal to accept reality
dissociation · buried · latent · subconscious · defense mechanism · Freudian · memory · childhood · therapy · psychoanalysis
tyranny
Oppressive, absolute governance
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- despotismAbsolute one-person rule
totalitarianism · subjugation · domination · oppression · persecution · censorship · silencing · crackdown · martial law · dissent
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- bottling emotionssuppress, stifle, hold back, contain, restrain
- obstructblock, halt, stop, impede, hinder
- restrainhold back, suppress, hold in, keep in, keep down
- oppressoppress, persecute, tyrannize, subjugate, dominate
- vinyl recordsvinyl, vinyl records, LP, record, album cover
- political repressionState suppression of opposition
- repressed memoryUnconsciously blocked past experience
- repressed memoriesUnconsciously blocked past experiences
- emotional repressionBlocking one's own feelings
- repressed desiresWants forced from awareness
- police repressionForceful control by authorities
repressed, repression, repressive, repressing, represses, unrepressed, repressible