Repress Definition

rĭ-prĕs
repressed, represses, repressing
verb
repressed, represses, repressing
To keep down or hold back; restrain.
To repress a sigh.
Webster's New World
To put down; subdue.
Webster's New World
To end, limit, or restrain, as by intimidation or other action.
Repress a heresy; repress inflation.
American Heritage
To force (ideas, impulses, etc. painful to the conscious mind) into the unconscious.
Webster's New World
To control so strictly or severely as to prevent the natural development or expression of.
To repress a child.
Webster's New World
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noun
The act of repressing.
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Origin of Repress

  • Middle English repressen from Latin reprimere repress- re- re- premere to press per-4 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Repress Sentence Examples

  • Pierre listened to him, scarcely able to repress a smile.

  • He sent large bribes to influential persons at Constantinople; he aided the Turkish vali to repress the Christians, who had again revolted; and he supported the Bosnian nobles against reforms imposed by the vali.

  • The humiliating secret treaty concluded between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1881 had specially pledged the latter to repress any nationalist agitation against the Dual Monarchy, even in respect of that Bosnia for which Serbia had risked her existence four years earlier.

  • Gladstone alienated considerable masses of English opinion by his efforts to reform the tenure of Irish land, and provoked the Irish people by his attempts to establish social order and to repress crime.

  • Some writers deny the company's right under this instrument to rule as they proceeded to do; but at any rate what they did was to make the suffrage dependent on stringent religious tests, and to repress with determined zeal all theological " vagaries " and " whimsies."

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Words Starting With

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Words Starting With R and Ending With S

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