All 6 Uses of
repress
in
Main Street
- She was alone in this house, this strange still house, among the shadows of dead thoughts and haunting repressions.†
Chpt 4
- The brown cube of a house stirred and awakened; it seemed to be in motion; it welcomed her back from shopping; it lost its mildewed repression.†
Chpt 6 *
- But Raymie, as the villain, had no repressions.†
Chpt 18
- Why, Good Lord, Maud, I could talk about neuroses and psychoses and inhibitions and repressions and complexes just as well as any damn specialist, if I got paid for it, if I was in the city and had the nerve to charge the fees that those fellows do.†
Chpt 25
- You have a perfectly well-developed case of repression of sex instinct, and it raises the old Ned with your body.†
Chpt 25
- The dam of repressed imagination which Vida had builded for years, which now, with Raymie off at the wars, she was building again, gave way.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(repress) to hold something back
or:
to subjugate (oppress or hold others down)