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/ɹəˈpɹɛs/ · verb
(transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further..
to repress rebellion or sedition
to repress the first risings of discontent
Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,
to repress a vinyl record
It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn.
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.
Use re press when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Re press means (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further..
Common synonyms include crush, put down, quell, subdue.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to repress rebellion or sedition
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