"repress" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: represses [plural]
Etymology: From 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-: 23 39 32 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ɹəˈpɹɛs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-repress.wav 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 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: crush, put down, quell, subdue, suppress Translations (forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing): zapaldu (Basque), потушавам (potušavam) (Bulgarian), reprimir (Catalan), 鎮壓 /镇压 (zhènyā) (Chinese Mandarin), 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)
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  2. (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back. Tags: broadly, transitive Synonyms: restrain, hold back, curb Translations (to keep back): сдържам (sdǎržam) (Bulgarian), възпирам (vǎzpiram) (Bulgarian), reprimir (Catalan), 抑制 (yìzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), 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-: 23 39 32 6 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: From 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. Translations (press again): 重新壓製 /重新压制 (chóngxīn yāzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), painaa uudelleen (Finnish), represser (French)
    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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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "réprimer"
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          "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",
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          "word": "tāmoe"
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          "roman": "podavljatʹ",
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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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          "roman": "presečʹ",
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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
          "word": "đàn áp"
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          "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
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    "Terms with Russian translations",
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    "Terms with Thai translations",
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      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "zapaldu"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "потушавам"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "reprimir"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "zhènyā",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "鎮壓 /镇压"
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      "word": "subpremi"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "sufoki"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "tukahduttaa"
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "réprimer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "opprimer"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "reprimir"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "zurückdrängen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "unterbinden"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "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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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "reprimo"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "kurupena"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "koropehu"
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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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      "roman": "sarkuftan",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "سرکوفتن"
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    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "sarkub kardan",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "سرکوب کردن"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "reprimir"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podavljatʹ",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "reprimir"
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      "code": "th",
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      "roman": "glân",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "กลั้น"
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      "code": "th",
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      "roman": "rá-ngáp",
      "sense": "forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing",
      "word": "ระงับ"
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      "code": "bo",
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      "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",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sdǎržam",
      "sense": "to keep back",
      "word": "сдържам"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "vǎzpiram",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "to keep back",
      "word": "reprimir"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "yìzhì",
      "sense": "to keep back",
      "word": "抑制"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to keep back",
      "word": "deteni"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to keep back",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to keep back",
      "word": "retenir"
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    {
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "to keep back",
      "word": "reprimo"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "воздерживаться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vozderžatʹsja",
      "sense": "to keep back",
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      "word": "воздержаться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podavljatʹ",
      "sense": "to keep back",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "подавлять"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podavitʹ",
      "sense": "to keep back",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "подавить"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to keep back",
      "word": "reprimir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "repress"
}

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          "text": "to repress a vinyl record",
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          "ref": "2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), pages 300-301:",
          "text": "It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn.",
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        "To press again."
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chóngxīn yāzhì",
      "sense": "press again",
      "word": "重新壓製 /重新压制"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "press again",
      "word": "painaa uudelleen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "press again",
      "word": "represser"
    }
  ],
  "word": "repress"
}

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          "ref": "2010, Clinton Heylin, Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry:",
          "text": "Save for the shows he actually taped — Dylan, Springsteen, Page & Plant and other kindred spirits — his own titles by 1994 were just represses of hard-to-find Japanese or American titles.",
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        "A record pressed again; a repressing."
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}

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