repressed

We can choose to look the other way as political activists are targeted, detained, repressed and deported for their ethnic backgrounds and political views.

Now, however, there are fresh concerns: while Syria under Assad saw political debates repressed, some worry that repression by clerics could end up forbidding some forms of art seen as anti-religious.

Tran, meanwhile, can’t remember her character’s secret, but believes she was so repressed in the beginning of the film it was probably a secret even to herself.

They were repressed and wanting romance, and even though it’s a much different world now, I think a lot of people are feeling repressed and wanting romance.

If the latter is true, everything happening in the present could just be some sort of manifestation of their repressed trauma.