Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To press again.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
- 4noun
The act of repressing.
- 5verb
block the action of
- 6verb
put out of one's consciousness
Synonyms
- 7verb
conceal or hide
"smother a yawn"
"muffle one's anger"
- 8verb
put down by force or intimidation
"The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"
"China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"
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