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

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  • adjective characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions

Etymologies

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repress + -ed

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re- + pressed

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  • Watson claims that Holmes tends to do this a lot.

    August 10, 2012