repress

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repress Definition

• (v) put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
• (v) conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one''s anger"; "strangle a yawn"
• (v) put out of one''s consciousness

repress Synonyms

• keep down
• muffle
• quash
• reduce
• repress
• smother
• stifle
• strangle
• subdue
• subjugate
• suppress