"repress" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: represses [plural]
Etymology: re- + press Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|press}} re- + press Head templates: {{en-noun}} repress (plural represses)
  1. A record pressed again; a repressing.
    Sense id: en-repress-en-noun-VHzMq2~U Categories (other): English terms prefixed with re- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 24 36 34 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ɹəˈpɹɛs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-repress.wav [Southern-England] Forms: represses [present, singular, third-person], repressing [participle, present], repressed [participle, past], repressed [past]
Rhymes: -ɛs Etymology: Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“I repress”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|repressus}} Latin repressus, {{m|la|reprimō|t=I repress}} reprimō (“I repress”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
  1. (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further. Tags: transitive Synonyms (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing): to crush, to quell, to subdue, to suppress Translations (forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing): zapaldu (Basque), потушавам (potušavam) (Bulgarian), reprimir (Catalan), subpremi (Esperanto), sufoki (Esperanto), tukahduttaa (Finnish), réprimer (French), opprimer (French), reprimir (Galician), zurückdrängen (German), unterbinden (German), unterdrücken (German), elfojt (Hungarian), បង្ក្រាប (bɑɑbɑngkraap) (Khmer), reprimo (Latin), kurupena (english: refers to feelings) (Maori), whakakōmau (Maori), koropehu (Maori), tāmoe (Maori), سرکوفتن (sarkuftan) (Persian), سرکوب کردن (sarkub kardan) (Persian), reprimir (Portuguese), подавлять (podavljatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сдерживать (sderživatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), подавить (podavitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), сдержать (sderžatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), усмирять (usmirjatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), усмирить (usmiritʹ) [perfective] (Russian), пресекать (presekatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), пресечь (presečʹ) [perfective] (Russian), reprimir (Spanish), กลั้น (glân) (Thai), ระงับ (rá-ngáp) (Thai), བཙན་གནོན་བྱས (btsan gnon byas) (Tibetan), mäl- (Tocharian B), đàn áp (Vietnamese), adwthio (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-repress-en-verb-3GYr9jd0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English heteronyms, English terms prefixed with re- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 70 13 2 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 18 65 11 7 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 15 57 22 6 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 24 36 34 6 Disambiguation of 'forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing': 94 6 Disambiguation of 'forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing': 94 6
  2. (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back. Tags: broadly, transitive Synonyms (to keep back): to restrain, to hold back Translations (to keep back): сдържам (sdǎržam) (Bulgarian), възпирам (vǎzpiram) (Bulgarian), reprimir (Catalan), deteni (Esperanto), pidättää [with-partitive] (Finnish), retenir (French), reprimo (Latin), сдерживать (sderživatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сдерживаться (sderživatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), сдержать (sderžatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), воздерживаться (vozderživatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), воздержаться (vozderžatʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), подавлять (podavljatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), подавить (podavitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), reprimir (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-repress-en-verb-aCvkK6av Categories (other): English terms prefixed with re- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 24 36 34 6 Disambiguation of 'to keep back': 3 97 Disambiguation of 'to keep back': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: repression, repressive, repressor
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: represses [present, singular, third-person], repressing [participle, present], repressed [participle, past], repressed [past]
Etymology: re- + press Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|press}} re- + press Head templates: {{en-verb}} repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
  1. To press again.
    Sense id: en-repress-en-verb-cU31ALfS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "reprimir"
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          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "glân",
          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "กลั้น"
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          "roman": "rá-ngáp",
          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "ระงับ"
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          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "btsan gnon byas",
          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "བཙན་གནོན་བྱས"
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          "lang": "Tocharian B",
          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "mäl-"
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "đàn áp"
        },
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "adwthio"
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          "sense": "to keep back",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "zapaldu"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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      "word": "réprimer"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "opprimer"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "reprimir"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "zurückdrängen"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "unterbinden"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "unterdrücken"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "elfojt"
    },
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      "roman": "bɑɑbɑngkraap",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "បង្ក្រាប"
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      "word": "reprimo"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "tāmoe"
    },
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      "code": "fa",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "سرکوفتن"
    },
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      "code": "fa",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "سرکوب کردن"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "reprimir"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "กลั้น"
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      "roman": "rá-ngáp",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "ระงับ"
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "btsan gnon byas",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "བཙན་གནོན་བྱས"
    },
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      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "mäl-"
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "đàn áp"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "adwthio"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "sdǎržam",
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      "word": "сдържам"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "vǎzpiram",
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      "word": "възпирам"
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      "word": "reprimir"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "word": "deteni"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to keep back",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "retenir"
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