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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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
"It responds to something deeply primitive in humans, something that we have repressed as we have evolved over the centuries. "It's also kind of a taboo, but not a taboo that is illegal.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2016
He could have repressed his anger, but he chose rather to give way to it; thinking that he could thus best work upon Susan's affection, so as to gain his point.
From Half a Life-Time Ago by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
