Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpɹɛs/Category:English 2-syllable words#REPRESSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#REPRESS

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• Rhymes: -ɛsCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛs#REPRESSCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛs/2 syllables#REPRESS

Verb

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)Category:English lemmas#REPRESSCategory:English verbs#REPRESSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#REPRESSCategory:Pages with entries#REPRESSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#REPRESS

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#REPRESS) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

   Synonyms: crush, put down, quell, subdue, suppress, tread

   to repress rebellion or seditionCategory:English terms with usage examples#REPRESS

   to repress the first risings of discontentCategory:English terms with usage examples#REPRESS

3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#REPRESS, by extension) To check; to keep back.

   Synonyms: restrain, hold back; see also Thesaurus:curb

   • 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 37, lines 542–544:

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

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Verb

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)Category:English lemmas#REPRESSCategory:English verbs#REPRESSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#REPRESSCategory:Pages with entries#REPRESSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#REPRESS

1. To press again.

   to repress a vinyl recordCategory:English terms with usage examples#REPRESS

   • 2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), pages 300-301:

     It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn.

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Noun

repress (plural represses)Category:English lemmas#REPRESSCategory:English nouns#REPRESSCategory:English countable nouns#REPRESSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#REPRESSCategory:Pages with entries#REPRESSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#REPRESS

1. A record pressed again; a repressing.
   • 2010, Clinton Heylin, Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry:

     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.

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