Definition of "repressed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of repress. (verb)
• Subjected to repression. (adjective)
• Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses. (adjective)
• Pressed again. (verb)

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• "This movement was again repressed in 1981 by Deng Xiaoping."
• "As Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University, wrote in the Financial Times: "The reality being repressed is that the western world is suffering a crisis of indebtedness.""
• "While the flames may be an expression of repressed sexuality, the movie as a whole is anything but pat."