represses
Keeps feelings inside
Represses is the third-person singular form of repress, meaning to hold back, restrain, or suppress something.
When someone represses an emotion or impulse, they prevent it from being expressed or acted upon: She represses her anger in professional settings.
In psychology, to repress is to push unwanted thoughts or memories out of conscious awareness.
Governments or authorities that repress people or movements use force to control or subdue them.
Actively prevents expression
- stiflesSuppresses or restrains
- buriesPlaces beneath the ground
- bottles upSuppresses emotions internally
- internalizesMakes part of oneself
denies · smothers · stuffs · unconscious · trauma · feelings · memories · defense mechanism
Governs through harsh control
- suppressesActively prevents expression
- silencesStops from speaking
- censorsThose who suppress content
- quashesSuppresses or annuls
crushes · subjugates · tyrannizes · persecutes · stifles · dissent · regime · totalitarian
suppresses
Actively prevents expression
- stiflesSuppresses or restrains
- buriesPlaces beneath the ground
- bottles upSuppresses emotions internally
internalizes · denies · smothers · stuffs · unconscious · trauma · feelings · memories · defense mechanism · Freud
oppresses
Governs through harsh control
- suppressesActively prevents expression
- silencesStops from speaking
- censorsThose who suppress content
quashes · crushes · subjugates · tyrannizes · persecutes · stifles · dissent · regime · totalitarian · dictator
- holds backrestrains, withholds, suppresses, inhibits, curbs
repressesreveals
Makes visible or known
discloses · airs · announces · exposes · publicizes
repressesliberates
Sets free from captivity
frees · emancipates · permits · empowers · encourages
- 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
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