REPRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repressed mean? 

• REPRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective REPRESSED has 1 sense:

1. characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions

  Familiarity information: REPRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions

Synonyms:

pent-up; repressed

Context example:

repressed rage turned his face scarlet

Similar:

inhibited (held back or restrained or prevented)

 Context examples 

NF-kB is a transcription factor involved in signaling by inflammatory factors such as TNF, and is repressed by glucocorticoids.

(Corticosteroid Cardioprotection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Methylation of this residue may be a marker for transcriptionally repressed genes.

(Histone H3 Lysine 9, NCI Thesaurus)

PRC1 complex blocks chromatin remodeling by SWI/SNF factors, thus preventing transcription of repressed chromosome regions.

(Gene Silencing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Justine assumed an air of cheerfulness, while she with difficulty repressed her bitter tears.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

DREAM binds calcium with 4 EF-hand motifs and the binding of DREAM to DNA is repressed in the presence of calcium.

(Pain Repression Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

ChREBP, carbohydrate responsive element binding protein, is a transcription factor that is activated by high levels of carbohydrates and repressed by cAMP.

(ChREBP Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The outcome of this modification is associated with either activated gene transcription, or, if further processed to trimethylated lysine 5, epigenetically repressed gene transcription.

(Chromobox Protein Homolog 5, NCI Thesaurus)

Custirsen inhibits testosterone-repressed prostate message-2 (TRPM-2).

(Custirsen sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Her eyes occasionally filled with tears, but those she repressed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)