Modifies a noun

• sexuality: A repressed sexuality or perhaps impotence is hinted at.

• emotion: The full release of repressed emotions may not be achieved in a single session.

• anger: Repressed anger, hostility or sexual tensions unknowingly released by an unhappy subject wreak havoc.

• memory: I've been able to go into my own repressed memories to the night my sister disappeared.

• passion: Set in a small insular town in America's Deep South, this is a gripping drama of smoldering and repressed passion.

Modifying Another Word

• sexually: Ginger Lynn is Audrey, a sexually repressed working girl whose love life is going nowhere.

• emotionally: So much contemporary drama seems to be about men who are either emotionally repressed or losing it completely.

• deeply: And in writing this book I realized I was writing about this deeply repressed part of myself.

• rather: Apart from the judo, there was nothing outwardly special about this rather repressed boy.

Used with adjective complement

• become: As a consequence, many people become emotionally repressed.

• keep: This highlights the importance of unconscious forces that are normally kept repressed.