REPRESS

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To press again.

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back. Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . . Thou couldst repress. Milton.

4.
n.

The act of repressing. [Obs.]

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