Usually means: Holding back or suppressing emotions.
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  1. repressing: Merriam-Webster
  2. repressing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. repressing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Repressing, repressing: Wordnik
  5. repressing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. repressing: Wiktionary
  7. repressing: Dictionary.com
  8. repressing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. repressing: Rhymezone
  10. repressing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. repressing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. repressing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. repressing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repressing: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repressing)

noun:  A second or subsequent pressing.

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