Verb repress has 3 senses
  1. repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce - put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
    --1 is one way to oppress, suppress, crush
    Derived forms: noun repression1, noun repression3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  2. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
    --2 is one way to suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  3. suppress, repress - put out of one's consciousness
    --3 is one way to forget, bury
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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