Words Like REPRESS
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to REPRESS.
    
    
    
        
            15 Alternative Words Similar to repress
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        5 examples of repress
           
        
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        to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
    
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        The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
    
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        China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
    
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        strangle a yawn
    
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        muffle one's anger
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of repress
           
        
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        To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress
    
    
    
 
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        Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
    
    
    
 
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        put down by force or intimidation
    
    
    
 
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        put out of one's consciousness
    
    
    
 
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        To hold back by an act of volition:  couldn't repress a smirk. 
    
    
    
 
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        To put down by force, usually before total control has been lost; quell:  repress a rebellion.