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| re·pres·sion [ ri présh'n ] |
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1. being kept down by force: the process of suppressing a population, or the condition of having political, social, or cultural freedom controlled by force or military means
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2. psychological protective mechanism: in Freudian psychology, a mechanism by which people protect themselves from threatening thoughts by blocking them out of the conscious mind
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