We are used to being constantly told: “Do not restrain yourself, express everything that is in your soul, because suppressed emotions give rise to neurosis.” Probably, such a dynamic exists, because society has been pretty full of psychological knowledge lately, and people suddenly wondered what was going on in their souls and what to do about it. But we want to talk about the verb - “suppress”. This is the subject of our conversation.
Value
We know the object of research well, because people often resort to its services. They repress their desires for the well-being of others. They suppress irritation in order to look decent. They fight anger in the same way. In other words, no matter how useful it is to splash out everything that is stored on our hearts, we nevertheless do not do this, because society will severely punish us for such liberties.
To understand what is the crowding out of consciousness of various undesirable emotions, you must first look at the meaning of the word “suppress”:
- Crush, crush with its weight.
- To deprive someone, anything of strength, energy; weaken, constrain (figurative).
- Contain, overcome feelings, feelings, impulses.
- Destroy, stop by force.
- To subordinate.
- Exceed anyone (or anything) in any respect, pushing into the background.
- Depress morally (figuratively).
- Depress, put in a depressed mood (figurative).
Having seen such an impressive list of meanings, we realized two things: firstly, there will be no list of synonyms, and secondly, sentences with the word “suppress” are inevitable. And this is as true as the fact that this section has come to an end.
suggestions
Since we have a lot of meanings, we’ll start without delay:
- How can I not worry, because he stepped in and crushed all my beautiful pears! Yes, I know that they were already on earth, but I would have made compote out of them!
- My husband suppressed my will, and once again I changed my mind about leaving him.
- He suppressed a sense of injustice and resentment, and decided to enter the theater next year.
- Riot had to be suppressed by a tough and unceremonious action, they did so.
- The attacking impulse was suppressed by the layered defense of the opponent. Order once again broke the class.
- Old age is once again suppressed and replaced by youth - a common thing. This is the law of life, nothing can be done about it.
- The classmates suppressed the boy with their beauty and wealth. He was even ready to exchange his mind for mediocrity in order to get rid of this oppressive feeling of loneliness and estrangement.
- Petra morally suppressed the burden of his own failures, he was tired of crashing, he wanted to win at least once. Feel the taste of victory, the right action and understand how it is when you are lucky.
From the foregoing, we can conclude that "suppress" is a depressive verb. But we will deal with the emotional background that follows, and summarize.
Object of study or its antonym
In other words, suppressing emotions or splashing them out - what to choose as a fundamental principle? This is a difficult question, because life does not endure extremes and fuss. Everything is good in moderation, and the true path lies somewhere in the middle. Sometimes the impulses to suppress - this is what you need (almost in the style of the master Yoda), and sometimes it is not a sin to express your point of view. In addition, advising is the last thing, and if you try on a similar role for yourself, then you should avoid extremes.