Definitions for repress
rɪˈprɛsre·press

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduceverb

   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"

2. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb

   conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

3. suppress, repressverb

   put out of one's consciousness

4. repressverb

   block the action of

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. repressnoun

   The act of repressing.

2. repressverb

   To press again.

3. repressverb

   To prevent forcefully an upheaval from developing further.

4. repressverb

   Hence, to check; to keep back.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Repressnoun

   Repression; act of crushing. Not in use.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   Loud outcries of injury, when they tend nothing to the repress of it, is a liberty rather assumed by rage and impatience, than authorised by justice. Government of the Tongue.

2. To REPRESSverb

   Etymology: repressus, Lat. reprimer, Fr.

   1. To crush; to put down; to subdue.

   Discontents and ill blood having used always to repress and appease in person, he was loth they should find him beyond sea. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   Some, taking dangers to be the only remedy against dangers, endeavoured to set up the sedition again, but they were speedily repressed, and thereby the sedition suppressed wholly. John Hayward.

   Such kings
   Favour the innocent, repress the bold,
   And, while they flourish, make an age of gold. Edmund Waller.

   How can I
   Repress the horror of my thoughts, which fly
   The sad remembrance. John Denham.

   Thus long succeeding criticks justly reign’d,
   Licence repress’d, and useful laws ordain’d:
   Learning and Rome alike in empire grew. Alexander Pope.

   Armies stretch, repressing here
   The frantick Alexander of the North. James Thomson.

   2. To compress. Not proper.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. repress

   To repress is to restrain, prevent, or inhibit the expression or development of something. It could also mean subduing someone or something by force. In psychology, it may refer to the process of pushing distressing thoughts or feelings into the unconscious mind.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Repressverb

   to press again

2. Repressverb

   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

3. Repressverb

   hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back

4. Repressnoun

   the act of repressing

5. Etymology: [Pref. re- + press.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Repress

   rē-pres′, v.t. to restrain, quell—also n.—ns. Repress′er, -or.—adj. Repress′ible, that may be restrained.—adv. Repress′ibly.—n. Repres′sion, act of repressing.—adj. Repress′ive, tending or able to repress.—adv. Repress′ively.

2. Repress

   rē-pres′, v.t. to press a second time.—n. Repress′ing-machine′, a machine for making pressed bricks: a press for compressing cotton bales.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. repress

   To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; as, to repress rebellion.

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1. presser

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of repress in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of repress in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of repress in a Sentence

1. Alissa Wise:

   These laws are meant to silence and repress, but they cant change peoples hearts and minds.

2. United States:

   The United States Government and Department of Commerce can not and will not tolerate the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities within China, this action will ensure that our technologies, fostered in an environment of individual liberty and free enterprise, are not used to repress defenseless minority populations.

3. Karl Marx:

   The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

4. Eugène Ionesco:

   Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

5. Maria Olivares:

   They come and repress us when in their homes they're suffering too.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=repress
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Repress
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=repress
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repress
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=repress
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html