arrest, clamp down on, damp down, embargo, hold in check, keep back, outlaw, refuse, shut down on, subjugate, weaken
Definitionv. put down by force or intimidation
Last update: July 21, 2015
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The movement was repressed by the police. [verb]
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His childhood was repressed and solitary. . [verb]
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Yet in 1675 the university of Angers was empowered to repress all Cartesian teaching within its domain, and actually appointed a commission charged to look for such heresies in the theses and the students' note-books of the college of Anjou belonging to the Oratory. [verb]
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Some tracts of frontier territory are detached from the various regions and entrusted to political residents, as, for instance, on the Sudan frontier and also on the Abyssinian boundary, where strict surveillance is necessary to repress raiding incursions from Tigre, and where the chief intelligence department is established. [verb]
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"Well, well," continued Hawkeye, making a hasty sign to repress his impatience; "I am much of your mind myself; though I thought it becoming my experience to tell the whole." [verb]
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He repressed forcibly these selfish emotions, though with an agony which thrilled his every nerve. [verb]
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I am sick of my country--of myself--of my dependent situation--of my repressed feelings--of these woods--of that river--of that house--of all but--Edith, and she can never be mine. [verb]
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How long she could have repressed her feelings it is difficult to say. [verb]
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Posdnicheff seemed to wish to add something, but, no longer having the strength to repress his sobs, he stopped. [verb]
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Some more were then scraped by the little girls, who could not, however, repress their occasional sobs. [verb]
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He may repress himself and struggle, but nevermore will he enjoy simple, pure, and fraternal relations toward woman. [verb]
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