repress
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verb (used with object)
1.
to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
2.
to keep down or suppress (anything objectionable).
3.
to put down or quell (sedition, disorder, etc.).
4.
to reduce (persons) to subjection.
5.
Psychoanalysis. to reject (painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses) from the conscious mind.
verb (used without object)
6.
to initiate or undergo repression.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English repressen < Latin repressus (past participle of reprimere), equivalent to re- re- + pressus, past participle of primere to press1
1325–75; Middle English repressen < Latin repressus (past participle of reprimere), equivalent to re- re- + pressus, past participle of primere to press1
Related forms
re·press·i·ble, adjective
non·re·press·i·ble, adjective
non·re·press·i·ble·ness, noun
non·re·press·i·b·ly, adverb
o·ver·re·press, verb (used with object)
Antonyms
1–4. foster.
1–4. foster.
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World English Dictionary
repress (rɪˈprɛs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to keep (feelings, etc) under control; suppress or restrain: to repress a desire |
| 2. | to put into a state of subjugation: to repress a people |
| 3. | psychoanal to banish (thoughts and impulses that conflict with conventional standards of conduct) from one's conscious mind |
| [C14: from Latin reprimere to press back, from | |
| re'presser | |
| —n | |
| re'pressible | |
| —adj | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
repress
late 14c., "to check, restrain," from L. repressus, pp. of reprimere "hold back, check," from re- "back" + premere "to push" (see press (v.1)). Used of feelings or desires from late 14c.; in the purely psychological sense, it represents Ger. verdrängen (Freud, 1893),
first attested 1904 (implied in repressed). Meaning "to put down" (a rebellion, etc.) is from late 15c. Related: Repressed; repressing.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
repress re·press (rĭ-prěs')
v. re·pressed, re·press·ing, re·press·es
To hold back by an act of volition.
To exclude something from the conscious mind.
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Example sentences
By drawing attention to them the militants become accessories to the blasphemies they ostensibly seek to repress.
They see the images they otherwise would forget, the scenes they otherwise would repress.
But this grammatical exuberance the scheme of my work did not allow me to repress.
They have the same political system and the capacity to repress and penalise for bad execution.
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