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repression   (TTS Sound)

The noun repression has 3 senses

• repression -- (a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects")


• repression -- ((psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious)


• repression -- (the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence")