repress
verb (used with object)
to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
was repressing
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past progressiveof repress.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Smithline said actor Esmé Bianco, a woman in the accusers group who reached a settlement with Warner in January, also insisted she was repressing memories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
It becomes this turning inside out of the very thing that was repressing you.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2022
In previous conflicts, the United States and its allies have made extensive use of air power to compel a foreign leader who was repressing his opposition to come to the negotiating table.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2013
Even as Kipling was repressing his doubts about the nature of the war and the death of his only son, there was a sort of revolution of poets at the other end of the country.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2011
I could see as he looked down that he was repressing some internal emotion.
From The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
