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Meaning repress meaning

What does repress mean?

repress

— verb (= quash, keep down, subjugate) 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 — verb block the action of — verb (= suppress) put out of one's consciousness — verb (= smother, strangle, muffle) conceal or hide smother a yawn muffle one's anger strangle a yawn

Synonyms repress synonyms

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repress English » English

suppress restrain subdue oppress control curb stifle check quash subjugate quell hold back constrain coerce withhold strangle stem squelch spurn smother retain repulse refuse muffle keep down dismiss decline conceal bridle throw away shun resend repel relay reject refute reduce rebut quench press down inhibit hold hinder hide force back dump dispose discard disavow disallow

Topics repress topics

What do people use repress to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Control
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Hide your thoughts
Social behavior Law Justice

Oppress

Conjugation repress conjugation

How do you conjugate repress?

repress · verb

Examples repress examples

How do I use repress in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I don't know about you, my dear.. butI doknowwhatitmeans to repress yourself, starve yourself.. throughwhatyouconceivetobe your duty to others.
That's why we repress them.
So, he has Certain complexes, certain needs he Can no longer repress.
Why can't we temporarily repress certain. reflexes?
Can you teach yourself to repress aggressive feelings?
These leaders have decided to repress this information because of the shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems.
These are notions we invent and use to repress him sexually.
They know only how to repress the people. and defend the interests of the rich oligarchy.
They've just learned to repress them.
But although he did his best it was not possible to repress the fact that Zentropa during the war transported jews in cattle trains to concentration camps, and American officers first class afterwards.
See, I don't think I'm being unreasonable when I ask what you and your crack-team of professionals are doing other than distributing literature to repress this situation.
Lisa, the important thing is for your mother to repress what happened push it deep down inside her so she'll never annoy us again.
And I'm not a shrinking violet who would repress the memory of a rapist's face.
Houston, that bang you heard was Fred Haise on the cabin repress valve.
So, he has certain complexes, certain needs he can no longer repress.
Do you not think we should do something to repress who is so disobedient and rebellious?
Old man Thornton developed a technique for agents to repress information in case they were captured.
It was no repress valve.
Express, not repress.
Creating a false memory so traumatic that the mind would repress it and that's where it wouId live, in person after person, hiding in a part of the brain that the conscious mind would want to avoid at all costs.
Do you mind, Buffy? I'm tryin' to repress. OK.
Repress someone else.
Our duty is to repress!
Do you not think we should do something to repress who is so disobedient and rebellious? But what?
Repress it!
That was no repress valve.
I'm tryin' to repress.
Oh, go away. - Repress someone else.
I'm sorry, I pretty much repress anything math-related.
I can't repress my desire.
How do we repress the animal instinct to explode?
It's unhealthy to repress stuff like this.

News and current affairs

In some societies, democracy is simply a way for the majority to repress the minority.
Needless to say, government mishandling of such disturbances, or a decision to repress them with force, would only fuel further social discontent.
It appears from press reports that the West finally gave the green light to the Egyptian military to overthrow Morsi, arrest the Muslim Brotherhood's leadership, and repress the Islamist rank and file.
Despite these sentiments, Microsoft is helping the Chinese authorities to repress information as best they can.
To be sure, the Communists tried to repress Islam as a religion - as they tried to repress all religions.
Whether individuals can repress and recover memories of traumatic sexual abuse has been especially contentious.
Instead, they repress, censor, silence and even imprison the moderates and appease the religious radicals.
Police use them to detect and repress dissidents.
But the US knows perfectly well that Al Qaeda is an enemy of convenience for Saleh and other American allies in the region, and that in many cases, terrorism has been used as a pretext to repress reform.
Because such distortions (a legacy of the dual-track transition) result in income disparities, they ultimately repress domestic consumption and contribute to China's trade imbalance.
But the French state does what it has to do to repress and contain anti-Semitism.
Argentina's foreign debt was generated during the military dictatorships, when the rich nations of the north provided credit to despots and sold them weapons to repress their people.

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