repress

repress is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To press again. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To press again.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
4. noun. The act of repressing.
5. verb. block the action of
6. verb. put out of one's consciousness

   Synonyms: suppress

7. verb. conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"

   "muffle one's anger"

   Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle

8. verb. put down by force or intimidation

   "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"

   "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"

   Synonyms: quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate

Synonyms

suppress, muffle, smother, stifle, strangle, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in repress:

presser

Common word forms

repressed, represser, represses, repressing, repressment

Words from these letters

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