Definition of Repress

Repress

To press again.

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.

Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.

The act of repressing.

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Repress Quotations

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

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
Lauryn Hill

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
Jock Sturges

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.
John Philip Sousa

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
Enoch Powell

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Repress Translations

repress in Latin is compescor, cohibeo, confuto, confuto
repress in Spanish is reprimir
repress in Swedish is undertrycka

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