Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repress"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repress \Re*press"\ (r?-pr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + press.]
To press again.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repress \Re*press"\ (r?-pr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + press: cf. L.
reprimere, repressum. Cf. {Reprimand}.]
1. 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.
2. Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . . Thou
couldst repress. --Milton.
Syn: To crush; overpower; subdue; suppress; restrain; quell;
curb; check.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repress \Re*press"\, n.
The act of repressing. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
repress
v 1: put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes
any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her
dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners
subjugated the peasants working the land" [syn: {quash},
{keep down}, {subdue}, {subjugate}, {reduce}]
2: put out of one's consciousness; in psychiatry [syn: {suppress}]
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