🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

压制

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yāzhì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Repression/rɪˈprɛʃ.ən/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"人民进行了抵抗,反对独裁统治的压制。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or process of suppressing a population or group by force, authority, or violence.

    "The government's brutal repression of the peaceful protests sparked international outrage."
  2. 2

    In psychoanalysis, the exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or desires from the conscious mind.

    "His psychological trauma led to the severe repression of his childhood memories."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'repressio', from 'reprimere' (to press back, check, or restrain), formed by the prefix 're-' (back) and 'primere' (to press). It entered English in the late Middle Ages as a political and physical concept, later gaining specialized psychoanalytic significance in the late 19th century.

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