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She could barely repress a smile as she scolded her son for fidgeting.repress = to hold something back
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The Reardan kids were so worried about grades and sports and THEIR FUTURES that they sometimes acted like repressed middle-aged business dudes with cell phones stuck in their small intestines. (source)repressed = holding back
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Freud believed that the dream was a "disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish." (source)repressed = something held back
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The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. (source)repression = use of force to suppress unpopular ideas or people
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Mama Elena threw her a look that seemed to Tita to contain all the years of repression that had flowed over the family, and said: “If he intends to ask for your hand, tell him not to bother. He'll be wasting his time and mine too. You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die.” (source)repression = subjugation (oppression that holds others down)
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It's got to be written now before John and I mature and repress the whole thing. (source)repress = put out of our conscious memory (the memory of which we are aware)
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The rage adrenaline is flooding my arms and legs, stiff with repressed energy. (source)repressed = held back
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...laughing ... They tried at first to repress it, but Aslan said: (source)repress = not permit it
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This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love. (source)repression = using force to control people or ideasstandard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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My mom thinks I'm repressing my feelings about this.† (source)
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"It seems very unlikely, Harry," said Hermione in a repressive sort of voice.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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he his wrath Repress'd, unwilling to invade the claims Of holy Night;† (source)
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What with the revolt of 1905 and the repressions that followed, when we graduated it was still a dangerous time for writing poems of political impatience.† (source)
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The train fills him with foreboding, but he represses the fear and walks up and down, peering inside.† (source)
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He'd fallen against the stone wall opposite and let out a snarl of unrepressed anger.† (source)unrepressed = not held back or oppressedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrepressed means not and reverses the meaning of repressed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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'It is enough that we know,' said Snape repressively.† (source)
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