Repress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REPRESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to keep under control
• subdue (someone or something) by force
• restrain, prevent, or inhibit (the expression or development of something)
• suppress (a thought or desire) so that it becomes or remains unconscious
• prevent the transcription of (a gene).
• keep (feelings) in check
• To press again.
• To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
• Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
• put down by force or intimidation
• conceal or hide
• put out of one\'s consciousness
• block the action of
NOUN:
• The act of repressing.

Words related to REPRESS

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Words that contain REPRESS

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How to use REPRESS in a sentence

• The government has its choice, either to respect the movement or to try to repress it by barbarous methods.
• How many and earnest thoughts still rise, and how hard to repress them.
• Let us be cautious, nevertheless, and repress within ourselves the thoughts which would come forth.
• Neither of the girls could repress a shudder as they thought of what might have occurred had they been higher in the air and no convenient pond handy for them to drop into.
• It is no less the dictate of humanity, than of policy, to repress this feeling and to establish permanent peace among these tribes.
• Should any movement be manifested within our limits, all the means at my command will be vigorously exerted to repress it.
• Our next step, especially if we are conscientious people, is to repress that something.
• Meanwhile the insurrection was gaining ground, and the local authorities were powerless to repress it.
• Garie resumed his seat, he could not repress a look of surprise, which Mr.
• Those things fought within her as she watched Ann shaken with the sobs she was trying to repress.
• Fifth, nothing would tend more to effect general contentment and repress the evils of comparative treatment, than the issue of fish as a right by law.
• In that position I could conceal the tears which forced themselves from my eyes, it exceeding all my powers to repress these evidences of human grief.
• In company they were silent and dejected, and ever as their eyes met in long and loving glances, they could scarcely repress their grief.
• Almost every nerve-centre has above it a higher centre whose function it is directly to repress or subdue the activity of the lower centre.
• The agonized mother could scarcely repress a scream at the spectacle that met her gaze.
• In 859 and 858 he had to repress a great revolt in Babylon and Chaldaea.
• She was at pains to repress a shiver of physical repulsion.
• Clambering to the top he could hardly repress a shout of exultation.
• Rosemary could not repress a shudder as she saw, in one doorway, a dead woman and a little girl.
• But to maintain that sovereigns may go to war upon the subjects of another state to repress an example, is monstrous indeed.
• If, indeed, there be any thing in local association fit to affect the mind of man, we need not strive to repress the emotions which agitate us here.
• The scene of the rendezvous was well chosen to repress any revival of old emotions.
• Saw, too, that her soft lips quivered as with the effort to repress an outburst of tears.
• But in the present state of things, I could not repress my desire of knowing, before I am ruined, the cause for which my ruin is resolved on.
• Tom could not repress a groan at this, but he decided he would have to make the best of it.
• I remember well she had an eye for color and a taste for description not easy to repress.
• Otherwise it would not cease to repress and warp human faculties.
• I say that this is exactly what the law ought to repress always and everywhere.

Similar words containing PRES without suffix s and without prefix re

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