repress
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“to repress”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹəˈpɹɛs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Verb
[edit]repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
- Synonyms: restrain, hold back; see also Thesaurus:curb
- 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 37, lines 542–544:
- Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing
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to keep back
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Etymology 2
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Verb
[edit]repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
- To press again.
- to repress a vinyl record
- 2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), pages 300-301:
- It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn.
Translations
[edit]press again
Noun
[edit]repress (plural represses)
- A record pressed again; a repressing.
- 2010, Clinton Heylin, Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry:
- Save for the shows he actually taped — Dylan, Springsteen, Page & Plant and other kindred spirits — his own titles by 1994 were just represses of hard-to-find Japanese or American titles.
Translations
[edit]repressing — see repressing
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