Textual thesaurus for "repress"

(verb) suppress

put out of one's consciousness

(verb) smother, stifle, strangle, muffle

conceal or hide

smother a yawn; muffle one's anger; strangle a yawn

(verb) subdue, subjugate, quash, reduce, keep down

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