Repress Synonyms and Antonyms
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Synonyms for Repress
To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
To cover in order to conceal, protect, or disguise:
To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
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.
To die from suffocation or strangulation; choke.
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To hold (something requiring an outlet) in check
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To control or restrain:
To place in the ground; cover with earth:
To keep from another's knowledge; keep secret
holdback
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To stop from making noise; make quiet or silent
Muffle is defined as to wrap or cover for protection, to keep warm or make quiet.
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 annul or put an end to (a court order, indictment, or court proceedings).
To bring under control or subjection; conquer
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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
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To cover (a fire), excluding air from it and causing it to smolder or die down
To kill by cutting off the supply of air from; suffocate; smother; choke
To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. [from 14th c.]
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.
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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(Medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
Curb is defined as to control or hold back.
Antonyms for Repress
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. [from 15th c.]
Words Related to Repress
To keep back; restrain; get in the way of; prevent; stop
To restrain is defined as to hold back or keep under control.
To hold (something requiring an outlet) in check
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