repress
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹəˈpɹɛs/
repress (represses, present participle repressing; past and past participle repressed)
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- to repress rebellion or sedition
- to repress the first risings of discontent
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, lines 542–544, page 37 ↗:
- Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,
- (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing) to crush; to quell; to subdue; to suppress
- (to keep back) to restrain; to hold back
- French: retenir
- Russian: сдерживать
- Spanish: reprimir
repress (represses, present participle repressing; past and past participle repressed)
- To press again.
- to repress a vinyl record
repress (plural represses)
- A record pressed again; a repressing.
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