REPRESS


Meaning of REPRESS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪpres ]

( represses, repressing, repressed)

1.

If you repress a feeling, you make a deliberate effort not to show or have this feeling.

It is anger that is repressed that leads to violence and loss of control.

...repressed aggression.

= suppress

VERB : V n , V-ed

2.

If you repress a smile, sigh, or moan, you try hard not to smile, sigh, or moan.

I couldn’t repress a sigh of admiration.

VERB : V n

3.

If a section of society is repressed , their freedom is restricted by the people who have authority over them.

...a UN resolution banning him from repressing his people.

VERB : V n [ disapproval ]

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