opressed

English translation: repressed

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English term or phrase:	oppressed
Selected answer:	repressed

15:05 Mar 11, 2004

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Poetry & Literature

English term or phrase: opressed

as in 'sexually opressed'

to say about someone from a Victorian time. Someone who is a churchgoer and believes that to enjoy sexual life would be a sin

lafresita (X) KudoZ activity Questions: 779 (1 open) (1 without valid answers) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 1541 United Kingdom
Local time: 03:08

repressed?

Explanation:
If the focus is on sexual inhibition only I would rather say "sexually repressed";
"sexually opressed" implied opression by someone else..

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Note added at 19 hrs 46 mins (2004-03-12 10:51:52 GMT)
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\"sexually oppressed\" implied oppression by someone else..

Selected response from:

Mario Marcolin
Sweden
Local time: 04:08

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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +6

oppressed

vixen

4 +5

inhibited

Todd Field

4 +2

heavily burdened by anxiety

Pnina

Brainwashed

Alex Zelkind (X)

4 +1

repressed?

Mario Marcolin

constrained

humbird

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

inhibited

Explanation:
In this context it means reserved, repressed, or self conscious (sexually).

Hope this helps and good luck!

Todd Field
United States
Local time: 20:08
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

oppressed

Explanation:
Not free to choose/judge for themselves.

Please note that oppressed is spelled with 2 p's.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

oppress

SYLLABICATION: op·press
PRONUNCIATION: -prs
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: op·pressed, op·press·ing, op·press·es
1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny. 2. To weigh heavily on: Poverty oppresses the spirit. 3. Obsolete To overwhelm or crush.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English oppressen, from Old French opresser, back-formation from oppression, oppression, from Latin oppressi, oppressin-, from oppressus, past participle of opprimere, to press against : ob-, against; see ob– + premere, to press; see per-4 in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: op·pressor —NOUN

Reference: http://www.bartleby.com/61/90/O0099000.html

vixen
Greece
Local time: 05:08
Native speaker of: Dutch
PRO pts in category: 8

4 hrs confidence:

constrained

Explanation:
The Victorian woman (or man) knew it (sex) is there, yet could not express her/his feeling freely (due to the social norm). That is a state of psychological constraint. This word indicates outer circumstance which is not one's own making, and the Victorian time is synonymous to such moral restrictions.
Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary -- 3. compeled to inaction.

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I was almost voted for Todd and Monica, but something did not click. I thought about it and come to realize that \"inhibited\" can be self-infricted and does not underscore external influence. The value judgement was larger than self.

humbird
Native speaker of:

Japanese,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

heavily burdened by anxiety

Explanation:
One of the meanings of "oppression" is "the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety etc."
I think that in your context someone is heavily burdened mentally by anxiety. The reason is anxiety-inducing belief.

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Pnina
Israel
Local time: 05:08
Native speaker of:

Hebrew

13 hrs confidence:

Brainwashed

Explanation:
If she really believes so.
Although it seems very doubtful that anyone whould believe in such nonsense. She is either a hypocrite or frigid.
It's a clinical case

Alex Zelkind (X)
Native speaker of:

Russian

19 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

repressed?

Mario Marcolin
Sweden
Local time: 04:08
Native speaker of:

Swedish,

English

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