Usually means: Hold back or suppress emotions.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. repress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. repress: Merriam-Webster
  3. repress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. repress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. repress: Collins English Dictionary
  6. repress: Vocabulary.com
  7. Repress, repress: Wordnik
  8. repress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. repress: Wiktionary
  10. repress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. repress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. repress: Dictionary.com
  13. repress: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. repress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Re.press: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Repress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. repress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. repress: Rhymezone
  19. repress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. repress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. repress: FreeDictionary.org
  22. repress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. repress: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repress: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. repress: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. repress: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repress)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
▸ verb:  (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
▸ verb:  To press again.
▸ noun:  A record pressed again; a repressing.

Similar:
reduce, keep down, suppress, subjugate, subdue, quash, fight back, refrain, resuppress, stifle, more...

Opposite:
liberate, emancipate, freed, free

Phrases:
repress feelings, repress idea, barely repress, repress his, restrain repress, more...

Adjectives:
scarce, few, unelected, europ, less, couldst, airy, longer, present, possible, transeurop

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Similar:
reduce, keep down, suppress, subjugate, subdue, quash, fight back, refrain, resuppress, stifle, more...

Opposite:
liberate, emancipate, freed, free

Phrases:
repress feelings, repress idea, barely repress, repress his, restrain repress, more...

Adjectives:
scarce, few, unelected, europ, less, couldst, airy, longer, present, possible, transeurop

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     olive,     maroon, more...



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