
Xem thêm: quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce, smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, suppress
repress verb
ADV. firmly feelings that had been firmly repressed | barely She could barely repress a sigh of relief.
VERB + REPRESS try to | be unable to
v.
The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
smother a yawn
muffle one's anger
strangle a yawn