Repressing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REPRESSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• REPRESS, 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).
ADJECTIVE:
• restrictive of action

Words related to REPRESSING

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How to use REPRESSING in a sentence

• Below the main forest belt the trees likewise diminish in size, frost and burning drought repressing and blasting alike.
• The Dutch and English East India companies, repressing their mutual jealousy, formed a species of partnership in 1619 for the reciprocal enjoyment of the rights of commerce.
• She spoke to the two children at times, repressing them when they became too boisterous, or petting and soothing when misadventure came to either of them in their gambols.
• Hodges, who up to this moment had had some difficulty in repressing his emotion, withdrew to a short distance to hide his fast-falling tears.
• The young Cossacks rode on sadly, repressing their tears out of fear of their father, who, on his side, was somewhat moved, although he strove not to show it.
• He turned about to retrace his steps for a short way, before leaving the road, when he stopped short, hardly repressing a gasp of affright.
• As Virgie met those eyes, which were fixed upon her with an eager, questioning look, she had difficulty in repressing a scream of fear and surprise.
• Ecclesiastical authority succeeded in repressing them in the sixteenth century, but they never altogether disappeared.
• She paced up and down the hallway, biting her lips and repressing the tears.
• Stillinghast, repressing a groan of anguish which struggled up from his heart.
• This, however, far from repressing their ardour, served only to animate their fury, and prompt them, if possible, to still greater exertions.
• The intense, repressing greens of summer were now subdued and shaded.
• He succeeded in repressing the revolt of his brother Asshurdaninpal and in depriving him of the authority he had usurped.
• His pains were long and violent, but they were not capable of repressing his fortitude or his eloquence.
• This man, truly great, looked at his masters, repressing a smile of scorn.
• But watching closely, Stafford was forced to admit that Leviatt did not feel so strongly, or was cleverly repressing his emotions.
• Spain was intent upon extending her commerce, bringing her manufactures to perfection, and repressing the insolence of the Barbary corsairs.
• In Boston all became sullen and threatening, and General Gage at length deemed it advisable to take means more efficacious than proclamations in repressing tumult.
• Combe, by the aid of volunteers, succeeded in repressing the commotion without bloodshed.
• Russia was to aid the sultan in repressing all disturbances, and the sultan was to shut the Dardanelles, in particular circumstances, against all other nations.
• And with difficulty repressing angry tears, she ran out into the passage and slammed the door.
• It is not about that I wish to write, but about the remarkable way India is repressing the movement.
• Mei-chieh was a woman of great experience, but she was unable to resist him and had difficulty, at length, in repressing herself.
• In so far as such legislation has embodied the common law, it has stood the test of the courts and been of some value in repressing objectionable trusts or contracts.
• Both the socialists and their successors would eradicate exploitation by repressing it.
• Have you ever gone out, as a child, and looked intently at the sun, repressing the flinching its strength caused and insisting on looking? You could do it for a short time only.
• By the process, however, of continually repressing the visible signs of his own emotions, he had now learnt to appreciate them in others.
• Repressing her contempt for Catholicism, she took him to St.
• She had the secret of stimulating in him what was poetic, and repressing what was merely extravagant or violent.
• This slender school-master, who had been all his life repressing the animal and developing the finer nature, now found a need of just what the bulldog had.
• Silently, silently repressing the high notes of your voice, apart from his couch, you will enable him to have the tranquil enjoyment of sleep.
• They seemed to be repressing taunts or reproaches merely in consideration of the fact that he was holding the purse-strings.
• First, you must repair all the fences, clearing out the weeds and repressing the brambles with a strong hand.

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