Sekirov Dictionary

repress

/ɹəˈpɹɛs/

verb 3
noun 1
forms 6

verb3

To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
•
To check; to keep back.
- Desire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldst repress, — 1671
To press again.

noun1

•
A record pressed again; a repressing.
- 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. — 2010

forms

repressed · represt · repressing · represses · represseth · repressest

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