repress
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4(verb.)
ADV
firmly
She firmly repressed her anger during the difficult conversation with her boss.
barely
He barely repressed his anger when he heard the unfair decision.
VERB + REPRESS
try to | be unable to
Definitions
verb
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,
verb
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.
noun
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.
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6to repress rebellion or sedition
Wiktionaryto repress the first risings of discontent
WiktionaryDeſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,
Wiktionaryto repress a vinyl record
WiktionaryIt 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 blac
WiktionarySave 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.
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