verb [VN]
1 to try not to have or show an emotion, a feeling, etc:
to repress a shudder / sigh / smile * He burst in, making no effort to repress his fury. * For years he had successfully repressed the painful memories of childhood.
2 [oftenpassive] to use political and/or military force to control a group of people and restrict their freedom:
The government was quick to repress any opposition.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for repress is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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