English-Italian translations for repression

• oppressione
  Le elezioni hanno purtroppo significato ulteriore oppressione e la repressione generale. Unfortunately, the elections too have increased the general repression.
  L'oppressione deve cessare e il Presidente Habibie lo sa bene. The repression there has to be ended, and Mr Habibie knows that.
  Le strade di Budapest furono teatro di una repressione sanguinosa e l'Ungheria rimase a lungo in preda al terrore e all'oppressione. The streets of Budapest were the scene of a bloody repression, and Hungary was gripped by terror and oppression for a long time.
• repressione
  La sola repressione non è sufficiente. Repression alone is not enough.
  promuovono e creano nuovi meccanismi di repressione, boost and create new mechanisms of repression,
  La repressione spesso ha uno sfondo religioso. Repression often has a religious background.
• rimozione

Definition of repression

• The act of repressing; state of being repressed
• The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses

Examples

• History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited

Related words

• repressive
• irrepressible
• irrepressibly
• repressible
• derepression
• antirepressive
• psychological repression