repress
verb (used with object)
to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
have repressed
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present perfectof repress.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"Sometimes they will be representing something that we have not realized by day or that we have repressed by day," Barrett said.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023
The reports that she provided were mostly harmless, but Wolf professed shock at the revelation, claiming that she must have repressed the memory.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018
He’s a grudgingly self-accepting gay student at a Midwestern university who seems to have repressed some of the worst things that happened in that long-ago summer.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2017
Her theory is that older generations of mothers have repressed all their negative parenting experiences “just to survive”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2017
At this point the church, by virtue of its teaching and leading functions, ought to have repressed excessive zeal and guided the popular frenzy.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
