repress

To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

to repress rebellion or sedition

to repress the first risings of discontent

To check; to keep back.

Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,

To press again.

to repress a vinyl record

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.

A record pressed again; a repressing.

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.