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Definition of repression : 1. That which represses; check; restraint.
2. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

Synonyms:

restraint, clampdown, oppression, control, continue, win, crackdown

contradiction, suppression, adversary, conflict, rebuff, fight, impediment, counterattack, obstruction, disagreement, opposition, confrontation, friction, counteraction, antagonism, inhibition, hindrance, objection, obstinacy, protest, interference, defiance, repulsion, challenge, dispute, resistance

Usage examples:

• It was in the years of comparative peace, between the horrors of the first civil war and the alarm preceding the outbreak of the second, that a new poet grew apparently unnoticed to maturity, and the silence was at last broken after the long repression of Italian genius by a voice at once stronger in native vitality and richer in acquired culture than any which had preceded it. - "The Roman Poets of the Republic", W. Y. Sellar.
• The iron repression of the night, of months indeed, fell away before her simple caress. - "K", Mary Roberts Rinehart.
• Peggy and Sally were Quaker maidens, well drilled in art of self- repression, so they made no scene as they bade their mothers farewell, and took leave of Nurse Johnson, her son and Robert Dale. - "Peggy Owen and Liberty", Lucy Foster Madison.