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单词 repress
释义 repress
 —repressible,  adj.  
 /ri pres"/,  v.t.  
  1. to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
  2. to keep down or suppress (anything objectionable).
  3. to put down or quell (sedition, disorder, etc.).
  4. to reduce (persons) to subjection.
  5.  Psychoanal.   to reject (painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses) from the conscious mind.
  v.i.  
  6. to initiate or undergo repression.
 [1325-75; ME repressen < L repressus (ptp. of reprimere), equiv. to re- RE- + pressus, ptp. of primere to PRESS1]
 Syn. 1. bridle, control. See check. 3. subdue, quash. 4. crush.
 Ant. 1-4. foster.
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