Definitions For Repression
noun
- The act of repressing; control by holding down
- (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 act of using force to control someone or something
- The state of being controlled by force
- The act of not allowing a memory, feeling, or desire to be expressed
Is Repression a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
14
The word Repression is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Repression in a Sentence
- The state's repression of its citizens
- They survived 60 years of political repression.