repress
verb (used with object)
to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
represses
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present tense formof repress (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Certain details of the scene are so grim she represses them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
An excitatory signal encourages communication between brain cells, whereas an inhibitory signal represses it, like the gas and brake pedals in a car.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
The landlocked country borders China, which human rights groups say represses religious freedom.
From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023
It is a totalizing system that represses human agency and offers no escape: We are “like butterflies, pinned live and wriggling onto history’s collage.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Taxation on industry represses the production of wealth; on luxuries, encourages Government in fostering excess; on necessary commodities, acts injuriously on the people's health and comfort.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
