repress
verb (used with object)
to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
had been repressing
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past perfect progressiveof repress.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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All I had been repressing, fighting, resisting for days past, had in a moment yielded to horror, and hurt that seemed past healing, and I was surrendering to what I should know was impossible.
From People Like That by Kate Langley Bosher
Oh, what can I do?” said she, putting her arms around her sister and the hot tears she had been repressing flowed fast.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
Suddenly despair seized Courtnay, and he gave the rein to the fury which he had been repressing with such difficulty.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson
