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Repress

//ɹəˈpɹɛs// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A record pressed again; a repressing.

    "Save for the shows he actually taped — Dylan, Springsteen, Page & Plant and other kindred spirits — his own titles by 1994 were just represses of hard-to-find Japanese or American titles."

Verb
  1. 1
    To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further. transitive

    "to repress rebellion or sedition"

  2. 2
    To press again.

    "to repress a vinyl record"

  3. 3
    block the action of wordnet
  4. 4
    To check; to keep back. broadly, transitive

    "Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,"

  5. 5
    put out of one's consciousness wordnet
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  1. 6
    suppress in order to conceal or hide wordnet
  2. 7
    put down by force or intimidation wordnet
  3. 8
    impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“I repress”).

Etymology 2

From re- + press.

Etymology 3

From re- + press.

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