repress
/ɹəˈpɹɛs/ verb B2- To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further. · to repress rebellion or sedition· to repress the first risings of discontent
- To check; to keep back.
He/she/it represses · Past repressed · Past participle repressed · -ing form repressing
Verb forms
- Base form
- repress
- He/she/it
- represses
- Past
- repressed
- Past participle
- repressed
- -ing form
- repressing
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We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
As for my disposition, that is, perhaps, somewhat too hasty; but I have striven to repress it.
“Come in,” said Louis XVIII., with repressed smile, “come in, Baron, and tell the duke all you know—the latest news of M.
“The affair in the Rue Saint-Jacques!” exclaimed Villefort, unable to repress an exclamation.
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