Crossword-Solution: REPRESSES
We have 4 clues for the answer “REPRESSES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Excludes from consciousness. | 1 answer |
| Quashes | 8 answers |
| Holds back. | 16 answers |
| Puts (down) | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REPRESSES (5)
For the Holy Ghost does not permit sin to have dominion, to gain the upper hand so as to be accomplished, but represses and restrains it so that it must not do what it wishes.
Vain distinction! invented as an excuse for property, and powerless against the frenzy of possession, which it neither prevents nor represses.
Public opinion in the United States very gently represses that love of wealth which promotes the commercial greatness and the prosperity of the nation, and it especially condemns that laxity of morals which diverts the human mind from the pursuit of well-being, and disturbs the internal order of domestic life which is so necessary to success in business.
The general spirit of the nation being infused into the spirit peculiar to the army, tempers the opinions and desires engendered by military life, or represses them by the mighty force of public opinion.
The lesson which he thus receives, makes him cautious; he leaves politics, represses his pride, and saves pence.
Quotes with REPRESSES (3)
That is the problem with repressed memory and dissociative identity disorder. Your mind represses certain traumas for reasons of pure survival. And then you learn that to survive as an adult, you must uncover the memories, find the parts, and relieve the traumas. The contradiction is almost too much for the mind to comprehend and for the heart and soul to endure.
We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.
If the parent represses the girl's anger not just once but over and over again, a deeper injury occurs: the girl will eventually dismantle her anger response. Ultimately, it's safer for her to cut off a part of her being than to battle the person on whom her life depends.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–1992).