Definition of Repress
Verb: repress ri'pres
- Put down by force or intimidation
"The government represses any attempt of an uprising";
- quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
- Conceal or hide
"repress a yawn";
- smother, stifle, strangle, muffle
- (psychiatry) put out of one's consciousness
- suppress
- Block the action of
See also:
represents
repressed
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