Repress synonyms
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To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
Curb is defined as to control or hold back.
Check means to test, examine, compare or inspect something to see if it is as it should be.
To decrease, limit, or block the action or function of something in the body, as an enzyme or organ.
hinder (related)
To keep back; restrain; get in the way of; prevent; stop
restrain (related)
To restrain is defined as to hold back or keep under control.
To control or restrain:
To place in the ground; cover with earth:
To keep from another's knowledge; keep secret
holdback
To stop from making noise; make quiet or silent
To cover in order to conceal, protect, or disguise:
Muffle is defined as to wrap or cover for protection, to keep warm or make quiet.
To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. [from 14th c.]
To stop or slow down a horse, etc. with or as with reins
To force one's way; crowd; squeeze
(Intransitive, UK) to walk or step through a substance such as mud
To kill by cutting off the supply of air from; suffocate; smother; choke
To prevent the flow or passage of:
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
allow (antonym)
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
permit (antonym)
To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. [from 15th c.]
To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
The definition of choke is to cut off oxygen, to be unable to breath, to block something, to become unable to perform at a crucial point.
To prevent or limit speech in (a legislative body)
(Idiomatic) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
To extinguish; put out
To cover (a fire), excluding air from it and causing it to smolder or die down
To die from suffocation or strangulation; choke.
Throttle is defined as to control the speed of an engine or the flow of fuel in an engine, or to hold down or choke.
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To hold (something requiring an outlet) in check
restraint (related)
To hold (something requiring an outlet) in check
To annul or put an end to (a court order, indictment, or court proceedings).
To bring under control or subjection; conquer
(Medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
Find another word for repress. In this page you can discover 45 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for repress, like: control, curb, check, inhibit, hinder, restrain, suppress, bridle, bury, compose and conceal.