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Repress   /riprˈɛs/   Listen
Repress

verb
1.
Put down by force or intimidation.  Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate.  "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently" , "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
2.
Conceal or hide.  Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle.  "Muffle one's anger" , "Strangle a yawn"
3.
Put out of one's consciousness.  Synonym: suppress.
4.
Block the action of.



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"Repress" Quotes from Famous Books



... a stable, before which the constable kept guard; mine host, and the waiter, and the ostlers acted as a sort of supernumerary police, to repress the multitude; while Peter held the real pony by the bridle, whose identity, which he frequently attested, was considered by all present as an incontrovertible evidence of ...
— Venetia • Benjamin Disraeli

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... part of wise parents to repress these squibs and crackers of juvenile contention, and to enforce that slowly learned lesson, that in this world one must often "pass over" and "put up with" things in other people, being oneself by no means perfect. Also that it is a kindness, and almost a duty, to let ...
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... vainly struggling to repress another gush of tears. In a little while she grew quiet, and said, "I know I'm very foolish, Effie; but I ...
— Christie Redfern's Troubles • Margaret Robertson

... cautious tightening of his arm, and stumbled forward, so that he had some ado to repress his irritation. ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver


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