repress
Plural: represses
Verb
Verb Forms: repressed, repressing, represses
- To keep under control or suppress; to hold back.
- put down by force or intimidation
- conceal or hide
- put out of one's consciousness
- block the action of
- To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- To check; to keep back.
- To press again.
Noun
- A record pressed again; a repressing.
Examples
- He had to repress his excitement when he saw the perfect word on his rack.
- to repress a vinyl record
- to repress rebellion or sedition
- to repress the first risings of discontent
Origin / Etymology
Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“I repress”).
Synonyms
keep down, muffle, quash, reduce, smother, stifle, strangle, subdue, subjugate, suppress, behedge, bind, bury, chasten, check, contain, cork, crush, curb, curtail, dampen, guard, hamshackle, hold back, hold down, limit, put down, quell, repress, restrain, restrict, shackle, stay, stop, straiten, throttle, underbring, vanquish, withhold, withstrain
Scrabble Score: 9
repress: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrepress: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
repress: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary