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repression

English

  1. 🔊 the act of repressing
    “his goal was the repression of insolence”
  2. 🔊 (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
  3. 🔊 a state of forcible subjugation
    “the long repression of Christian sects”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 represa repression
  2. 🔊 represión repression

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