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repress
[ ri-pres ]
verb (used with object)
- to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
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Antonyms:
- to keep down or suppress (anything objectionable).
Antonyms:
- to put down or quell (sedition, disorder, etc.).
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Antonyms:
- to reduce (persons) to subjection.
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Antonyms:
- Psychology, Psychoanalysis. to reject (painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses) from the conscious mind.
verb (used without object)
- to initiate or undergo repression.
repress
/ ɪˈɛ /
verb
- to keep (feelings, etc) under control; suppress or restrain
to repress a desire
- to put into a state of subjugation
to repress a people
- psychoanal to banish (thoughts and impulses that conflict with conventional standards of conduct) from one's conscious mind
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
- ˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ··· adjective
- non···· adjective
- non·····ness noun
- ԴDz···· adverb
- ··· verb (used with object)
- un···· adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of repress1
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Example Sentences
The sanctions were previously imposed on people involved in repressing civilians in Syria, as well as those supporting or benefitting from the Assad regime.
We can choose to look the other way as political activists are targeted, detained, repressed and deported for their ethnic backgrounds and political views.
Now, however, there are fresh concerns: while Syria under Assad saw political debates repressed, some worry that repression by clerics could end up forbidding some forms of art seen as anti-religious.
Tran, meanwhile, can’t remember her character’s secret, but believes she was so repressed in the beginning of the film it was probably a secret even to herself.
They were repressed and wanting romance, and even though it’s a much different world now, I think a lot of people are feeling repressed and wanting romance.
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