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- pronunciation:
- rih
pres
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
represses, repressing, repressed |
| definition 1: |
to restrain or prevent the expression of (feelings, utterances, or the like).
His strict parents taught him never to cry and in general to repress his feelings.She could no longer repress her fears, and she confided them to her sister.- synonyms:
- bottle up, control, hold, restrain, stifle, subdue, suppress
- antonyms:
- express, gratify
- similar words:
- bridle, check, conceal, contain, curb, hide, inhibit, mask, silence, smother, squash
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| definition 2: |
to put a stop to; subdue.
The army quickly repressed the uprising.- synonyms:
- crush, put down, quash, quell, stifle, suppress
- similar words:
- silence, smother, snuff out, squash, squelch, stop, subdue
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| definition 3: |
to resist conscious awareness of.
All his life he repressed the memory of that childhood tragedy.- synonyms:
- suppress
- similar words:
- bury, inhibit
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| related words: |
choke, constrain, deaden, discourage, prevent, quash, quell, quench, stifle, suppress, swallow, withhold |
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| derivations: |
repressed (adj.), repressible (adj.), represser (repressor) (n.) |
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