Overview of verb repress

The verb repress has 4 senses

• repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce -- (put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land")


• smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress -- (conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn")


• suppress, repress -- (put out of one's consciousness)


• repress -- (block the action of)

Overview of adj repressing

The adj repressing has 1 sense

• inhibitory, repressive, repressing -- (restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline")