repress
IPA: riprˈɛs
noun
- A record pressed again; a repressing.
verb
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
- To press again.
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Examples of "repress" in Sentences
- The groans, impossible to repress, that issued through the lips of
- Selling ideology not to inspire, but to repress is his main game, and he is quite good at it.
- In the case of a symptom, I "repress" this death and try not to think about it, but the repressed trauma returns in the symptom.
- The more I ceased to "repress" the political events of the Bush years, is the more I found myself overtaken with moral/rational outrage.
- Obama called on some regimes which "repress" their people, but everyone knows that those include only regimes which object to the American will.
- Inebriation, if not the wisest way to console and repress, is at least an opportune way to live with the knowledge that it is impossible to win affection.
- Plus, the educated American operates under a common understanding that we are to "deal with" unpleasantness in our past rather than "repress" it, and then seek something called closure.
- It's sort of set me up to brew two articles I have been dieing to produce without having to "repress" myself .. one on BANKING and one on Arctic Sovereignty .. which are both diatribes REALLY against insitutionalized violence.
- That's why is has to do with the unacknowledged and not the unknown, since ultimate realness is where we ALREADY ARE and this means our lives are grounded in that which we may "repress" (collectively or otherwise); however, please note that when you repress something, say death, you have to know what to repress in order to repress it.
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