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control
To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
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  1. To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
  2. To hold in restraint; check.
  3. To hold in restraint; check:
curb
To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way.
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  1. To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way.
  2. To lead (a dog being walked) to the curb or some other place where it may pass its waste matter
  3. To restrain; check; control
inhibit
To hold back; restrain:
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  1. To hold back; restrain:
  2. To decrease, limit, or block the action or function of something in the body, as an enzyme or organ.
  3. To hold back or keep from some action, feeling, etc.; check or repress
burke
To avoid; disregard:
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  1. To avoid; disregard:
  2. To get rid of quietly; evade or suppress, as a parliamentary bill, discussion, etc.
  3. (Obs.) To murder by suffocating so as to leave the body unmarked and fit to be sold for dissection
choke
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
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  1. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
  2. (Informal) To be unable to perform efficiently, as in a sporting event, because of tension, strong emotion, etc.
  3. To become strained with emotion
gag
To prevent or limit speech in (a legislative body)
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  1. To prevent or limit speech in (a legislative body)
  2. To experience a regurgitative spasm in the throat, as from revulsion to a food or smell or in reflexive response to an introduced object.
  3. (Mech.) To choke or stop up (a valve, etc.)
hold back
(Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
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  1. (Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
  2. (Idiomatic) to contain; stop
hold down
(Idiomatic) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
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  1. (Idiomatic) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
  2. (Idiomatic) To restrain; to check.
hush
To be or become silent or still.
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  1. To be or become silent or still.
  2. To stop making noise; be or become quiet or silent
  3. To keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of. Often used with up :
muffle
To repress; stifle.
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  1. To repress; stifle.
  2. To deaden (a sound), as by wrapping
  3. To wrap or cover in order to deaden or prevent sound
quench
To cool (hot steel, etc.) suddenly by plunging into water, oil, or the like
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  1. To cool (hot steel, etc.) suddenly by plunging into water, oil, or the like
  2. To put out (a fire, for example); extinguish.
  3. To overcome; subdue; suppress
smother
To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone):
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  1. To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone):
  2. To hide or suppress by or as by covering; stifle
  3. To conceal, suppress, or hide:
squelch
To walk heavily, as through mud, making a sucking sound
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  1. To walk heavily, as through mud, making a sucking sound
  2. To produce a splashing, squishing, or sucking sound, as when walking through ooze.
  3. To suppress or silence completely and with a crushing effect
stifle
To suppress or repress; hold back; check, stop, inhibit, etc.
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  1. To suppress or repress; hold back; check, stop, inhibit, etc.
  2. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
  3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
strangle
To kill by squeezing the throat as with the hands, a noose, etc., so as to shut off the breath; throttle; choke
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  1. To kill by squeezing the throat as with the hands, a noose, etc., so as to shut off the breath; throttle; choke
  2. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.
  3. To suppress, repress, or stifle:
suppress
To put down by force; subdue; quell; crush
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  1. To put down by force; subdue; quell; crush
  2. To curtail or inhibit the activity of something, such as the immune system or a gene.
  3. To restrain the growth, activity, or release of:
throttle
To lessen the speed of (an engine, vehicle, etc.) by this or similar means; slow (down)
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  1. To lessen the speed of (an engine, vehicle, etc.) by this or similar means; slow (down)
  2. To suppress:
  3. To stop the utterance or action of; censor or suppress
Find another word for repress. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for repress, like: control, curb, check, inhibit, hinder, restrain, suppress, burke, choke, gag and hold back.

Sentence Examples

  • Pierre listened to him, scarcely able to repress a smile.

  • of Portugal to set up the Inquisition in Goa to repress Judaism, but the tribunal was not set up until 1560.

  • The measures taken by Alfred to repress this revolt culminated in the capture of London in 885 or 886, and the treaty known as Alfred and Guthrum's peace, whereby the boundaries of the treaty of Wedmore (with which this is often confused) were materially modified in Alfred's favour.

  • I can't bear these ladies and all these civilities! said he aloud in Sonya's presence, evidently unable to repress his vexation, after the princess' carriage had disappeared.

  • His policy was to take advantage of the violence of the faction, to " give them line enough," to use his own words, to encourage it rather than repress it, with the expectation of procuring finally a strong royalist reaction.

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