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Definition: Repressed |
RepressedAdjective1. Characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions; "her severe upbringing had left her inhibited"; "a very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease"; "their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions"; "repressed rage turned his face scarlet". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repressed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: RepressedSynonym: pent-up (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissuasion | Repressed. |
Oblivion | Repressed memory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Repressed |
| English words defined with "repressed": Irrepressibly ♦ reaction formation, Repressible, resistance ♦ smolderingly, smoulderingly ♦ unrepressed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "repressed": repressed brick ♦ Telomerase. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) Listen to you, you're so repressed. (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) That's the beauty of being repressed, I can. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Shut-up repressed crybabies (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I hate it! It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants and first-year drama students with too many posters of Betty Blue, The Blues Brothers, Big Blue and Blue Velvet on their blue bloody walls (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson) | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany undertakes on condition that reciprocity is accorded in these matters to respect any law, or any administrative or judicial decision given in conformity with such law, in force in any Allied or Associated State and duly communicated to her by the proper authorities, defining or regulating the right to any regional appellation in respect of wine or spirits produced in the State to which the region belongs, or the conditions under which the use of any such appellation may be permitted; and the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale of products or articles bearing regional appellations inconsistent with such law or order shall be prohibited by the German Government and repressed by the measures prescribed in the preceding Article. (reference) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | This he repressed, as speedily as possible, and strove to look as if nothing of the kind had happened |
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Civil Liberties | China | However, at the same time, folk religions have been labeled as "feudal superstition," and sometimes were repressed. (references) |
Burma | There are credible reports that SPDC authorities systematically have repressed Muslims in certain areas and forcibly relocated them from certain areas. (references) | |
Moldova | The law provides for restitution to politically repressed or exiled persons whose property was confiscated during the successive Nazi and Soviet regimes. (references) | |
Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | Religion was repressed, and education ceased. (references) |
Lithuania | People were repressed and taken to forced labor camps in Germany. (references) | |
Ecuador | Additionally, under state control the Government has historically repressed electricity tariffs, forcing distributors to operate at a loss. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guinea | Condé's arrest led to street protests by RPG militants in Conakry, which were repressed by Guinean police, resulting in the arrest and detention of many protesters. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | By some of the other belligerents, although professing just and amicable dispositions, injuries materially affecting our commerce have not been duly controlled or repressed. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The piracies by which our commerce in the neighborhood of the island of Cuba had been afflicted have been repressed and the confidence of our merchants in a great measure restored. |
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| "Repressed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 49.62% of the time. "Repressed" is used about 260 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 49.62% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 30% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.62% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 260 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "repressed": repressed brick ♦ repressed inflation ♦ repressed memory ♦ Repressed memory therapy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "repressed": long-repressed, well-repressed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
repressed memory | 57 |
repressed anger | 7 |
repressed | 4 |
memory repressed therapy | 4 |
abuse memory repressed sexual | 3 |
repressed emotion | 2 |
grief repressed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "repressed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مكظوم (pent up), مكبوت (curbed, penned, pent up, restrained, subdued, suppressed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 抑制 (repress, repressing, repression). (various references) | |
Danish | undertrykt inflation (repressed inflation), toerpressede sten (repressed brick), pressede mursten (repressed brick). (various references) | |
Dutch | nageperste steen (repressed brick), geperste baksteen (repressed brick), dubbel geperste steen (repressed brick). (various references) | |
Finnish | patoutunut (pent-up). (various references) | |
French | refoulé, réprimé, étouffé. (various references) | |
German | verklemmt (crossed, inhibited, uptight), unterdrückte (oppressed, quashed, suppressed). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπιεσμένος πληθωρισμός (repressed inflation), πιεστή οπτόπλινθος (repressed brick), τούβλο βγαλμένο από πρέσσα (repressed brick). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מו"ח", עצור (consonant, detained, forbidden, halt, imprisoned, restrained, shut in, whoa). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elfojtott (pent-up, stifled, suppressed), elnyomott (be ridden, downtrodden, oppressed, ridden, underprivileged). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terbelenggu (in fetters). (various references) | |
Italian | represso (pent up). (various references) | |
Manx | streeanit (bridled, controlled, curbed, restrained, retarded), currit fo smaght, castit (censored, defeated, deterred, inhibited, overcome, quenched, restrained, suspended). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epressedray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tijolo reprensado (repressed brick). (various references) | |
Russian | подавлять подавленный (squelched). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | suzbijen, potisnut. (various references) | |
Spanish | reprimido (pent, pent up). (various references) | |
Swedish | presstegel (repressed brick), pressad mursten (repressed brick). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | репресований. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "repressed": derepressed, unrepressed. (additional references) | |
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"Repressed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: represe, represed, repressa, retressed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "repressed" (pronounced rēpre"st) |
| 5 | -p r e" s t | compressed, impressed, depressed, expressed, oppressed, pressed, Prest, suppressed, unimpressed. |
| 4 | -r e" s t | abreast, addressed, breast, crest, digressed, distressed, dressed, progressed, rest, stressed, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unrest, wrest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | arrest, acquiesced, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, Celeste, chest, coalesced, confessed, congest, detest, digest, dispossessed, divest, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, pest, possessed, professed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, request, retest, southwest, suggest, test, vest, West, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: derepress. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: speeders. | |
-2 letters: depress, dresser, peeress, pressed, presser, redress, repress, reseeds, seeders, speeder, speered. | |
-3 letters: deeper, peered, perses, reseed, resees, seders, seeder, seeped, speeds, speers, sprees. | |
-4 letters: deeps, deers, drees, dress, epees, erred, erses, pedes, peers, perse, preed, prees, prese, press, redes, reeds, resee, seder, seeds, seeps, seers, sered, serer, seres, speed, speer, spree. | |
-5 letters: deep. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-p-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: superseder. | |
+2 letters: derepressed, derepresses, predecessor, prestressed, reexpressed, reprocessed, superseders, supersedure, unrepressed. | |
+3 letters: depressurize, derepressing, derepression, geopressured, interspersed, overspenders, predecessors, preparedness, preprocessed, sheepherders, supersedures. | |
+4 letters: depressurized, depressurizes, derepressions, eavesdroppers, overimpressed, overpersuades, overprocessed, pervertedness, repressurized. | |
+5 letters: groundskeepers, misrepresented, overcompressed, prediscoveries, preparednesses, supercalenders, underexposures, unpreparedness. | |
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