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What does repressive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
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Others say the West has forced the government to reinstate the repressive apparatus used by the previous regime to quash opposition.
In places like Burma, it takes the form of virtual forced labor under a brutally repressive military dictatorship.
The latest move to establish regional offices has created fears of a possible return to repressive and abusive practices.
The stories have a raw texture that lays bare the rather bleak emotional life of her repressed, and repressive environment.
Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with repressive but anti-Soviet regimes.
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or repressive authority.

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