repress

Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“I repress”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpɹɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

   to repress rebellion or sedition

   to repress the first risings of discontent

2. (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 37, lines 542–544:

     Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,

• (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing): to crush; to quell; to subdue; to suppress
• (to keep back): to restrain; to hold back

• repression
• repressive
• repressor

re- +‎ press

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. To press again.

   to repress a vinyl record

repress (plural represses)

1. A record pressed again; a repressing.
   • 2010, Clinton Heylin, Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry:

     Save for the shows he actually taped — Dylan, Springsteen, Page & Plant and other kindred spirits — his own titles by 1994 were just represses of hard-to-find Japanese or American titles.

• Presser, presser