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Repressers
- noun - an agent that represses
Repressing
- verb - block the action of
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
- put out of one's consciousness
- restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"
Repression
- noun - (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects"
- the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
Repressive
- adjective - restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"
Repressors
- noun - an agent that represses
Reprieving
- verb - postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
- relieve temporarily
Reprimands
- noun - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"
- Berate
- censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- rebuke formally
- Tell off
Reprinting
- verb - a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale
- print anew; "They never reprinted the famous treatise"
Reproached
- verb - express criticism towards; "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior"