repress

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (5)  · 
“
He was a master of that oratory which no limitation of knowledge can repress, and which no training can impart.

View all »
Definitions (17)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (5)

  1. transitive verb To hold back by an act of volition: couldn't repress a smirk.
  2. transitive verb To put down by force, usually before total control has been lost; quell: repress a rebellion.
  3. transitive verb Psychology To exclude (painful or disturbing memories, for example) automatically or unconsciously from the conscious mind.
2 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (4)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

More examples »
 

Tags

repress hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 73 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

repress:   repressing ·  repressed
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English repressen, from Latin reprimere, repress- : re-, re- + premere, to press; see per-4 in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English repressen (cf. French represser, press again), from Latin repressus, past participle of reprimere, hold back, check, from re-, back, + premere, press: see press.
  2. from repress, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/rəˈprɛs/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

proletariate · sere · salsify · inn · utilitarianism

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich