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
Dubbed GENtoniK, the chemical cocktail both represses epigenetic factors that inhibit cell maturation and stimulates factors that promote it.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
The landlocked country borders China, which human rights groups say represses religious freedom.
From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023
Film critic Robin Wood famously argued that "the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses."
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023
“Let me put it, then, that entomology as a pursuit sternly represses frivolousness.”
From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy
