verb
ADVERB
▪ barely
▪
She could barely ~ a sigh of relief.
▪ brutally , harshly , violently
▪
The organized opposition has been brutally ~ed.
▪ systematically
▪
a country that systematically ~es human rights
VERB + REPRESS
▪ try to
▪ be unable to
Repress is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ emotion , ↑ feeling , ↑ memory , ↑ shudder , ↑ sigh , ↑ urge