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repress
Found in thesaurus: oppress, crush, suppress, conquer, stamp down, subdue, curb, inhibit, bury, forget
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repress
v.
suppress, restrain, control; subdue, quell, quash
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repress
Verb
1. put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
(synonym) quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
(hypernym) oppress, suppress, crush
(derivation) repression
2. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
(synonym) smother, stifle, strangle, muffle
(hypernym) suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
3. put out of one's consciousness
(synonym) suppress
(hypernym) forget, bury
(hyponym) swallow
(classification) psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
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repress
v.
potlačit; utiskovat
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repress
Czas.
tłumić
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Repress
(v. t.)
To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
(v. t.)
To press again.
To press again.
(v. t.)
Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
(n.)
The act of repressing.
The act of repressing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
