repress meaning and definition

REPRESS verb

Definition of repress (verb)

1. put down by force or intimidation
   • "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
   • synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate
2. conceal or hide
   • "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
   • synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle
3. put out of one's consciousness
   • synonyms: suppress
4. block the action of