repression
英 [r?'pre??n]
美[r?'pr???n]
- n. 抑制，[心理] 壓抑；鎮(zhèn)壓
英英釋意
- 1. a state of forcible subjugation;
- "the long repression of Christian sects"
- 2. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- 3. the act of repressing; control by holding down;
- "his goal was the repression of insolence"