Definition for Repress:

• To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.

Synonyms for Repress:

• n.

  •
  • fetter,
  • control,
  • limit.
  •
  • squelch,
  • restraint,
  • quench,
  • conceal,
  • manage,
  • burke.
  •repress (noun)
  • quash,
  • suppress,
  • keep down,
  • smother,
  • subdue,
  • subjugate,
  • stifle,
  • muffle,
  • reduce,
  • strangle.

• v.

  •cognition (verb)
  • suppress.
  •keep back, hold in (verb)
  • hold back,
  • collect,
  • swallow,
  • muffle,
  • master,
  • kill,
  • smother,
  • cork,
  • squelch,
  • shush,
  • inhibit,
  • silence,
  • overcome,
  • quash,
  • check,
  • cool,
  • tie up,
  • subdue,
  • subjugate,
  • suppress,
  • keep under wraps,
  • keep in check,
  • stifle,
  • quell,
  • overpower,
  • control,
  • restrain,
  • crush,
  • hinder,
  • curb,
  • keep in,
  • gridlock,
  • black out,
  • chasten,
  • throw cold water on,
  • bottle,
  • quelch,
  • rein,
  • lock,
  • simmer down,
  • compose.
  •oppose (verb)
  • repulse,
  • hinder,
  • suppress,
  • meddle,
  • oppress,
  • antagonize,
  • intercept,
  • contradict,
  • object,
  • oppose,
  • impede,
  • fight,
  • disagree,
  • obstruct,
  • rebuff,
  • check,
  • cross,
  • confront,
  • counterattack,
  • defy,
  • counter,
  • dispute,
  • interfere,
  • protest,
  • counteract,
  • challenge,
  • repel,
  • conflict,
  • resist,
  • inhibit.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • deaden,
  • hide,
  • choke back,
  • conceal,
  • dissimulate,
  • burke,
  • discourage,
  • restrain.
  •
  • hush,
  • sublimate,
  • exorcise,
  • fetter,
  • muzzle,
  • blank out,
  • mask,
  • withdraw.
  •
  • squelch,
  • obliterate,
  • maintain,
  • deny,
  • disguise,
  • fight back,
  • quiet.
  •
  • dam,
  • contain,
  • quench.
  •
  • manage,
  • bury.
  •
  • school,
  • escape.
  •
  • control.
  •bottle up
  • hold down,
  • cover up,
  • keep back,
  • keep secret,
  • hold in.
  •command
  • overbear.
  •compose
  • simmer down,
  • quell.
  •defend
  • fight back.
  •gag
  • cork up.
  •preclude
  • prevent.
  •quash
  • quash.
  •restrain
  • keep down,
  • choke back,
  • sit on.
  •squelch
  • quelch.
  •stave
  • stave.
  •stop
  • choke off.
  •Other relevant words:
  • snuff out,
  • mortify,
  • school,
  • make subservient,
  • maintain,
  • Disedge,
  • embargo,
  • slim down,
  • prevent,
  • deafen,
  • calm,
  • break,
  • overmaster,
  • humiliate,
  • hamper,
  • Cohibit,
  • persecute,
  • preserve,
  • render insensible,
  • quiet,
  • debar,
  • harry,
  • perverse,
  • halter,
  • or,
  • deaden,
  • onslaught,
  • brutality,
  • turn,
  • dull,
  • reclaim,
  • curtail,
  • restraint,
  • asphyxiate,
  • domesticate,
  • keep under,
  • squelch,
  • compel,
  • retain,
  • eliminate,
  • nasty,
  • dissuade,
  • vanquish,
  • hold down,
  • forbid,
  • taboo,
  • foreshorten,
  • drown,
  • contrary,
  • shut out,
  • choke off,
  • reduce,
  • austere,
  • disincline,
  • harass,
  • suppression,
  • reject,
  • tame,
  • hush up,
  • mask,
  • arrest,
  • overcome,
  • turn aside,
  • keep under wraps,
  • cow,
  • persist,
  • break in two,
  • contravene,
  • crackdown,
  • abuse,
  • furthermore,
  • preclude,
  • disguise,
  • master,
  • intimidate,
  • heavy,
  • deter,
  • defeat,
  • smash,
  • humble,
  • decelerate,
  • withstand,
  • muffle,
  • decoct,
  • jump on,
  • slow,
  • control,
  • extirpate,
  • override,
  • keep in,
  • surround,
  • call off,
  • stay,
  • restrain,
  • likewise,
  • overthrow,
  • fight back,
  • manage,
  • delay,
  • interfere with,
  • muzzle,
  • hush,
  • overbear,
  • appropriate,
  • withdraw,
  • go against,
  • truculence,
  • destroy,
  • mute,
  • weaken,
  • rule out,
  • slacken,
  • hold fast,
  • sit on,
  • castrate,
  • hold,
  • cease,
  • choke down,
  • proscribe,
  • chasten,
  • discouragement,
  • cruelty,
  • dishearten,
  • obtund,
  • reserve,
  • trample down,
  • harshness,
  • trample underfoot,
  • maybe,
  • mollify,
  • hide,
  • coerce,
  • traverse,
  • invalidate,
  • curb,
  • enslave,
  • bit,
  • cool,
  • neither,
  • Despotize,
  • contain,
  • interdict,
  • declare invalid,
  • abolish,
  • oh,
  • dampen,
  • lock in,
  • conceal,
  • put out,
  • keep secret,
  • prohibition,
  • subjugate,
  • grind,
  • gridlock,
  • annihilate,
  • thin,
  • deprecate,
  • jostle,
  • dam up,
  • shorten,
  • but,
  • melt off,
  • demolish,
  • burke,
  • stagger,
  • stave,
  • trample upon,
  • rein in,
  • put the lid on,
  • lock,
  • tread,
  • discourage,
  • lord it over,
  • shut off,
  • bulldoze,
  • cut down,
  • hush-hush,
  • trim back,
  • quench,
  • propitiate,
  • crack down on,
  • Henpeck,
  • keep,
  • cork up,
  • cruel,
  • stultify,
  • still,
  • solemn,
  • introvert,
  • dwindle,
  • shush,
  • deviation,
  • cushion,
  • atrocity,
  • obdurate,
  • scotch,
  • containment,
  • restrict,
  • set back,
  • exorcise,
  • cover up,
  • tone down,
  • damp,
  • disallow,
  • bar,
  • shrink,
  • indispose,
  • chill,
  • overpower,
  • browbeat,
  • tyrannize,
  • grim,
  • scale down,
  • concentrate,
  • terminate,
  • end,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • triumph over,
  • conquer,
  • severe,
  • gag,
  • hold back,
  • deny,
  • clog,
  • apiece,
  • thrash,
  • keep back,
  • pugnacity,
  • bury,
  • deoxidize,
  • hold under,
  • emasculate,
  • discontinue,
  • void,
  • keep down,
  • interdiction,
  • hold up,
  • annul,
  • get over,
  • compose,
  • daunt,
  • say no to,
  • unmanageable,
  • snub,
  • quell,
  • aggressiveness,
  • tie up,
  • stamp out,
  • command,
  • dissimulate,
  • conflict with,
  • get rid of,
  • handicap,
  • regulate,
  • wait,
  • unman,
  • interrupt,
  • attack,
  • quelch,
  • trammel,
  • withhold,
  • also,
  • run against,
  • shut down,
  • stem,
  • countercheck,
  • outlaw,
  • hard,
  • contract,
  • dispirit,
  • detain,
  • pacify,
  • collect,
  • stop,
  • allay,
  • terrorize,
  • hardship,
  • save,
  • crush,
  • refuse,
  • sit upon,
  • terrorise,
  • govern,
  • perhaps,
  • come down,
  • cut back,
  • stanch,
  • inhibition,
  • domineer,
  • merciless,
  • beat,
  • limit,
  • rigid,
  • appease,
  • confine,
  • soften,
  • throw cold water on,
  • react,
  • number,
  • actually,
  • grind down,
  • either,
  • act,
  • repression,
  • stamp down,
  • strangle,
  • brutal,
  • keep quiet,
  • sublimate,
  • mitigate,
  • save up,
  • quash,
  • ban,
  • bottle up,
  • cut,
  • squash,
  • withal,
  • kill,
  • hugger mugger,
  • exclamatory,
  • pare,
  • everywhere,
  • suffocate,
  • die young,
  • stifle,
  • sad,
  • intractable,
  • eradicate,
  • circumscribe,
  • bully,
  • frustrate,
  • recoil,
  • block,
  • tabu,
  • abridge,
  • douse,
  • temper,
  • exterminate,
  • dominate,
  • enjoin,
  • lose weight,
  • scrap,
  • blunt,
  • obliterate,
  • trim down,
  • repeal,
  • choke back,
  • trim,
  • constrain,
  • pitiless,
  • swallow,
  • severally,
  • censor,
  • tread down,
  • simplify,
  • avoid,
  • crumb,
  • silence,
  • refractory,
  • exclude,
  • prohibit,
  • blanket,
  • moreover,
  • overawe,
  • bate,
  • nullify,
  • keep in check,
  • clamp down on,
  • bottle,
  • Retund,
  • retard,
  • overwhelm,
  • morsel,
  • blank out,
  • unwieldy,
  • thin out,
  • stubborn,
  • simmer down,
  • subdue,
  • cork,
  • rein,
  • moderate,
  • extinguish,
  • dilute,
  • escape,
  • dam,
  • intervene,
  • stamp,
  • respectively,
  • boil down,
  • black out,
  • piece,
  • alas,
  • hold in,
  • beat down,
  • smother,
  • clash,
  • anywhere,
  • bring down,
  • according to,
  • walk all over,
  • persistent,
  • action,
  • tighten,
  • choke,
  • quelling,
  • bridle,
  • shake,
  • too,
  • throttle,
  • sit down on,
  • push back,
  • besides,
  • rigorous,
  • abbreviate,
  • fetter,
  • Intermeddle,
  • maltreat,
  • obstinate,
  • subordinate,
  • oppression,
  • halt.

Antonyms for Repress:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    advance, aid, assist, express, foment, forward, free, further, incite, instigate, let go, let out, liberate, loose, prop up, provoke, release, scatter, start, stir, support, surrender, whip, whip up, give free rein to.

• v.

  • keep back, hold in
    yield, help, release, permit, liberate, allow, free, encourage, disperse, assist, scatter, aid, surrender, let go, start.
  • Other antonyms:
    unleash, help, whip, loose, set free, advance, instigate, back, prop up, release, impel, further, forward, provoke, support, animate, express, assist, excite, foment, cultivate, free, let loose, stir, emancipate, aid, take out, arouse, vent, incite.