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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
Retrospect
- noun - contemplation of things past; "in retrospect"
- hindsight
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride"
- Look back upon an age, event, time etc
Seirospore
- - One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.
Tear Sheet
- noun - a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication
Terrassing
- verb - provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house"
Tetraskele
- noun - a figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center
Tetraspore
- noun - one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium