noun
Meaning 1
A record pressed again; a repressing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
repress
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɹəˈpɹɛs/
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rhymes with -ɛs
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verb
Meaning 2
To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to repress rebellion or sedition
- to repress the first risings of discontent
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crush, put down, quell, subdue, suppress, tread
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To check; to keep back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: restrain, hold back, behedge, guard, govern, smother, bind, chasten, check, inhibit, contain, vanquish, cork, curb, quench, quell, bury, curtail, dampen, hamshackle, hold down, limit, repress, restrict, shackle, stay, stifle, stop, straiten, subdue, suppress, throttle, underbring, withhold, withstrain
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To press again.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to repress a vinyl record
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
block the action of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
verb
Meaning 6
put out of one's consciousness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: suppress
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: forget, bury
Narrower terms: swallow
verb
Meaning 7
conceal or hide
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- smother a yawn
- muffle one's anger
- strangle a yawn
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smother, stifle, strangle, muffle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
verb
Meaning 8
put down by force or intimidation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
- China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
- The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: oppress, suppress, crush
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English press English repress From re- + press.
Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“to repress”).
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Basque: zapaldu — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Bulgarian: потушавам (potušavam) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Catalan: reprimir — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Chinese Mandarin: 鎮壓 /镇压 (zhènyā) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Czech: potlačovat — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Czech: potlačit — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Esperanto: subpremi — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Esperanto: sufoki — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Finnish: tukahduttaa — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- French: réprimer — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- French: opprimer — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Galician: reprimir — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- German: zurückdrängen — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- German: unterbinden — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- German: unterdrücken — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Hungarian: elfojt — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Khmer: បង្ក្រាប — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Latin: reprimo — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Māori: kurupena — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Māori: whakakōmau — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Māori: koropehu — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Māori: tāmoe — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Persian: سرکوفتن (sarkuftan) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Persian: سرکوب کردن (sarkub kardan) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Portuguese: reprimir — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: подавлять (podavljatʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: сдерживать (sderživatʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: подавить (podavitʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: сдержать (sderžatʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: усмирять (usmirjatʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: усмирить (usmiritʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: пресекать (presekatʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Russian: пресечь (presečʹ) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Spanish: reprimir — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Thai: กลั้น (glân) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Thai: ระงับ (rá-ngáp) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Tibetan: བཙན་གནོན་བྱས (btsan gnon byas) — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Tocharian B: mäl- — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Vietnamese: đàn áp — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Welsh: adwthio — forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
- Bulgarian: сдържам (sdǎržam) — to keep back
- Bulgarian: възпирам (vǎzpiram) — to keep back
- Catalan: reprimir — to keep back
- Chinese Mandarin: 抑制 (yìzhì) — to keep back
- Czech: zadržet — to keep back
- Czech: zadržovat — to keep back
- Esperanto: deteni — to keep back
- Finnish: pidättää — to keep back
- French: retenir — to keep back
- Latin: reprimo — to keep back
- Russian: сдерживать (sderživatʹ) — to keep back
- Russian: сдерживаться (sderživatʹsja) — to keep back
- Russian: сдержать (sderžatʹ) — to keep back
- Russian: воздерживаться (vozderživatʹsja) — to keep back
- Russian: воздержаться (vozderžatʹsja) — to keep back
- Russian: подавлять (podavljatʹ) — to keep back
- Russian: подавить (podavitʹ) — to keep back
- Spanish: reprimir — to keep back
- Chinese Mandarin: 重新壓製 /重新压制 (chóngxīn yāzhì) — press again
- Finnish: painaa uudelleen — press again
- French: represser — press again