Term: repression: (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
Candidate hypernym: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires → 1
Candidate hypernym: tetherball: a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus sclerotinia: large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens → 0
Candidate hypernym: freight: transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates → 0
Candidate hypernym: games-master: the teacher in charge of games at a school → 0
Candidate hypernym: conceit: an artistic device or effect → 0
Candidate hypernym: butcher shop: a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold → 0
Candidate hypernym: anarchism: a political theory favoring the abolition of governments → 0
Candidate hypernym: arariba: Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood → 0
Candidate hypernym: dinoceras: a variety of dinocerate → 0
Candidate hypernym: seller's market: a market in which more people want to buy than want to sell → 0