Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To induce the operation of (a gene) by deactivating the repressor.
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- verb genetics To
activate agene by the removal of arepressor
Etymologies
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de- + repress
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Examples
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Presumably, then, Penelope would need to "derepress" her rape memory, or at the least to accept its buried existence, before overcoming her symptom.
'Victims of Memory': An Exchange Albert, Carol 1995
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If the Diggers preferred to derepress sexual impulses, Gaskin sought to derepress the Holy Spirit that, from his perspective, had been buried under scientific rationalism and the capitalist elevation of material goods over spiritual values.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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