Synonyms for repression
rɪˈprɛʃ ənre·pres·sion

Princeton's WordNet

1. repressionnoun

   a state of forcible subjugation

   "the long repression of Christian sects"

2. repressionnoun

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

3. repressionnoun

   the act of repressing; control by holding down

   "his goal was the repression of insolence"

Matched Categories

1. • Control
   • Defense Mechanism
   • Psychiatry
   • Subjugation

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1. repressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   suppression

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1. repressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   suppression, restraint, quelling, check

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1. List of paraphrases for "repression":

   suppression, oppression, repressive, crackdown, punishment, suppressing, répression, suppress, persecution, clampdown

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1. Jack Watling:

   Because of the institutional organizational capacity of those paramilitary groups, when Saddam Hussein fell and the repression that contained them ended, they flourished. They had the capacity to expand and to operate more overtly.

2. John McCain:

   There's still repression, yes, there's been improvement but there's still quite a way to go.

3. Democratic Senator Bob Menendez:

   In failing to uphold their responsibilities to vet their supply chains, these companies may be complicit in the mass repression of Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups.

4. Nataliya Bugayova:

   The repression security services are used to comfortable living and need to be economically supported, i think this is the first time where that might be called into question, because of the effects of sanctions, [they] might make it challenging for Putin to feed his whole repression regime.

5. Paul Chambers:

   If Yingluck is impeached this could easily spark snowballing sympathy for Yingluck and a resurrection of pro-Thaksin and pro-democracy sentiment that could give way to the potential beginning of demonstrations, military repression of these demonstrations could increase sympathy for them, and the longer the military remains in power, the less likely it can sustain societal approval for doing so.