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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 51Թ Forms
- ··· adjective
- non···· adjective
- non·····ness noun
- ԴDz···· adverb
- ··· verb (used with object)
- un···· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of repress1
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Example Sentences
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.
“It’s just so emotional, and you try to repress it and try to move ahead and be thankful for what you do have,” Arline said.
If the latter is true, everything happening in the present could just be some sort of manifestation of their repressed trauma.
The UN team said "an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters" had been directed by political leaders and senior security officials.
"You shouldn't jail fundamental rights, you shouldn't repress them – you should protect them," she says.
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