Reprimido in english
Repressed
pronunciation: riprest part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: riprest part of speech: adjective
In gestures
reprimido = pent-up ; constrained ; repressed ; bottled-up.
Example: They both exploded into laughter, thereby releasing the pent-up tension.Example: This game was developed in order to facilitate the therapeutic process for those children who are `inhibited, constrained or resistive'.Example: The stereotype of a librarian i a 'fussy old woman of either sex, myopic and repressed, brandishing or perhaps cowering behind a date-stamp and surrounded by an array of notices which forbid virtually every human activity'.Example: The aim of therapy is the gentle release of bottled-up feelings.more:
» reprimido sexualmente = sexually repressed .
Example: Freud's typical patient in the early years was frequently hysteric -- often female, bright, sexually repressed, bursting with vivid dreams and fantasies, prone to psychosomatic symptomatology.reprimir = throttle ; dam (up) ; smother ; repress ; quash ; stifle ; dam back ; bottle + Nombre + up.
Example: The reference librarian must always resist an impulse to be glib; he must scourge and throttle his vanity; he must reach a conclusion rather than begin with it.Example: But to prevent any meandering at all, or to dam the flow of talk too soon and too often by intruding, generally only frustrates spontaneity = But to prevent any meandering at all, or to dam the flow of talk too soon and too often by intruding, generally only frustrates spontaneity.Example: Smothering an excusable curse, Modjeski asked: 'How much longer is Wade likely to be out?'.Example: Friends of Cuban Libraries draw attention to the extent to which intellectual freedom is being repressed in Cuba.Example: The author brazenly insists that Woodman's family has compromised the documentation of the photographer's life by effectively quashing most of her work.Example: Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.Example: There are also those who all day long are mild, and courteous, and genial, and good-natured in public life, damming back their irritability, and their petulance, and their discontent.Example: Some actors who are naturally gifted and have a flair for the dramatic are often stifled and bottled up -- sort of like the genie inside the bottle.more:
» reprimir enérgicamente = crack down on .
Example: Private citizens now suffer increased government monitoring of their telephone lines in an attempt to crack down on illegal Internet surfing.» reprimir + Posesivo + emociones = cork up + Posesivo + emotions .
Example: It hurts Deb to cork up her emotions just as it hurts me to cover up my own troubles.» reprimir + Posesivo + sentimientos = cork up + Posesivo + feelings .
Example: Louisa had to cork up her feelings to avoid crying as she washed, fed, and consoled scores of injured and dying men.