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1. Put down by force or intimidation
   "The government represses any attempt of an uprising";
   - quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
    
2. Conceal or hide
   "repress a yawn";
   - smother, stifle, strangle, muffle
    
3. (psychiatry) put out of one's consciousness
   - suppress
    
4. Block the action of

Derived forms: repressed, repressing, represses

Type of: bury, change, conquer, crush, curb, disremember, forget, inhibit, oppress, stamp down, subdue, suppress