Repress is valid Scrabble Word

Is repress a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is repress valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

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

NOUN:

The act of repressing.

Words related to 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.

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