Crossword-Solution: REPRESSION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Repression | n. | The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. |
| Repression | n. | That which represses; check; restraint. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “REPRESSION”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| the act of repressing | 1 answer |
| Relative of inhibition. | 1 answer |
| Act of subduing | 1 answer |
| uncommunicativeness | 6 answers |
| retainment | 6 answers |
| keeping back | 7 answers |
| muteness | 10 answers |
| CONTROL BY HOLDING DOWN | 11 answers |
| retention | 15 answers |
| squashing | 18 answers |
| BOWDLERIZATION | 18 answers |
| containment | 18 answers |
| clampdown | 18 answers |
| censorship | 18 answers |
| subdual | 21 answers |
| expurgation | 22 answers |
| Suppression | 23 answers |
| inhibition | 24 answers |
| Reticence | 28 answers |
| Wraps | 32 answers |
| editing | 32 answers |
| undertone | 57 answers |
| Restraint | 87 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with REPRESSION (5)
With Nixon's election, black and white radicals felt that the white and conservative backlash had taken over the "Establishment" and that official repression was bound to follow.
And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there are no means of legal repression.
Years of repression were revealed in her sudden burst of confidence; and the pity she inspired made Darrow long to fill her few free hours to the brim.
She had passed her twenty-fifth birthday, but her voice had in it the docile self-repression of a school-girl.
Straightway the fountains of twenty-six years' repression overflowed in the breast of the man and all his being ran toward her in a wave of desire.
Quotes with REPRESSION (3)
Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1960–1987).