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Definition of Repress

Repress To press again. To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent. Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back. The act of repressing. Related Definitions: Act, Again, As, Back, Check, Crush, Discontent, Down, Effectually, First, Hence, Keep, Of, Or, Out, Press, Quell, Rebellion, Repress, Restrain, Sedition, Subdue, The, To

Repress Quotations The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. Zbigniew Brzezinski Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolidge The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. John Philip Sousa It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. Jock Sturges

Repress Translations repress in Latin is compescor, cohibeo, confuto, confuto repress in Spanish is reprimir repress in Swedish is undertrycka

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