Usually means: Inhibited or suppressed emotional expression.
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  1. repressed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. repressed: Merriam-Webster
  3. repressed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. repressed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. repressed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Repressed, repressed: Wordnik
  7. repressed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. repressed: Wiktionary
  9. repressed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. repressed: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. repressed: Dictionary.com
  12. repressed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. repressed: Rhymezone
  14. repressed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. repressed: FreeDictionary.org
  16. repressed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. repressed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. repressed: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. repressed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. repressed: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repressed: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See repress as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Subjected to repression.
adjective:  (medicine) Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
verb:  Pressed again.

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