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📖 Определения и значения для слова repress

📒 to try not to have or show an emotion, a feeling, etc.

  • to repress a smile
  • He burst in, making no effort to repress his fury.
  • For years he had successfully repressed the painful memories of childhood.

📒 to use political and/or military force to control a group of people and limit their freedom

  • The government was quick to repress any opposition.
  • The organized opposition has been brutally repressed.
  • a country that systematically represses human rights
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