Synonyms for Repress:

• n.

  •
  • pen in,
  • tie down,
  • limit,
  • fence in,
  • infringe,
  • bind.
  •
  • deal with,
  • restraint,
  • quench,
  • hold-down,
  • manage.
  •choke back (noun)
  • choke.
  •fight back (noun)
  • fight.
  •keep down (noun)
  • keep down.

• v.

  •bottle up (verb)
  • re-strict,
  • keeping feeling inside oneself,
  • shutting in,
  • re press,
  • re strict,
  • boxed up,
  • keeps secret,
  • bringing to naught,
  • re pressed,
  • re pressing,
  • keeping secret,
  • holds in,
  • coops up,
  • re presses,
  • re-presses,
  • boxing up,
  • brought to naught,
  • bringing naught,
  • brought naught,
  • cooping up,
  • brings naught,
  • holds down,
  • kept feeling inside oneself,
  • re-press,
  • brings to naught,
  • boxes up,
  • re-pressing,
  • bring naught,
  • shuts in,
  • keeps feeling inside oneself.
  •bridle (verb)
  • kept in check,
  • kept check,
  • keeps in check,
  • keeping check,
  • keeps check,
  • keep check.
  •censor (verb)
  • dropping iron curtain,
  • refusing transmission,
  • supervises communications,
  • refused transmission,
  • blue-pencilled,
  • blue-pencilling,
  • dropt iron curtain,
  • Exscinded,
  • re view,
  • exscinds,
  • blue-penciled,
  • de-contaminate,
  • over seen,
  • bluepencilling,
  • dropped iron curtain,
  • dropping the iron curtain,
  • scissors out,
  • drops the iron curtain,
  • de contaminates,
  • re viewing,
  • over-see,
  • blue pencilling,
  • in spects,
  • over-seen,
  • re views,
  • over-seeing,
  • supervised communications,
  • Exscinding,
  • dropped the iron curtain,
  • re-view,
  • preventing publication,
  • over seeing,
  • re-viewing,
  • prevented publication,
  • dropt the iron curtain,
  • prevents publication,
  • bluepencilled,
  • re vile,
  • de contaminate,
  • bluepenciling,
  • de-contaminates,
  • de contaminating,
  • supervising communications,
  • re-vile,
  • blue pencils,
  • puts the lid on,
  • over sees,
  • over-saw,
  • re-viewed,
  • bluepenciled,
  • blue pencilled,
  • putting lid on,
  • bluepencil,
  • de-contaminated,
  • in-spect,
  • blue penciled,
  • de contaminated,
  • drop iron curtain,
  • bluepencils,
  • blue penciling,
  • re viewed,
  • puts lid on,
  • cleaning up,
  • over-sees,
  • scissored out,
  • drops iron curtain,
  • scissoring out,
  • refuses transmission,
  • over see,
  • over saw,
  • re-views,
  • de-contaminating,
  • in spect,
  • in-spects,
  • putting the lid on.
  •change (verb)
  • repress.
  •chasten (verb)
  • ex-probate,
  • tonguelashed,
  • up-braiding,
  • tongue lashes,
  • re-proved,
  • be rates,
  • re proved,
  • ex-probates,
  • re-proving,
  • haddest carpet,
  • ex probated,
  • tongue-lashes,
  • be-rated,
  • co wing,
  • exprobates,
  • re-proves,
  • tongue-lashed,
  • having carpet,
  • hadst on the carpet,
  • had on carpet,
  • haddest the carpet,
  • took to task,
  • hath carpet,
  • have the carpet,
  • ex-probating,
  • hast carpet,
  • had carpet,
  • re proves,
  • hadst on carpet,
  • re-prove,
  • be rating,
  • up-braided,
  • hath on carpet,
  • having on carpet,
  • fulminated against,
  • takes task,
  • up-braids,
  • hath the carpet,
  • hast on carpet,
  • hadst carpet,
  • haddest on the carpet,
  • fulminating against,
  • took task,
  • taking to task,
  • co-wing,
  • up braids,
  • had the carpet,
  • taking task,
  • co wed,
  • hadst the carpet,
  • re prove,
  • be rated,
  • be-rates,
  • ex probating,
  • be-rate,
  • tongue lashing,
  • hast the carpet,
  • ex probate,
  • hast on the carpet,
  • tonguelashing,
  • takes to task,
  • has the carpet,
  • calls down,
  • be rate,
  • have carpet,
  • fulminates against,
  • co-wed,
  • ex-probated,
  • tonguelashes,
  • be-rating,
  • exprobating,
  • tonguelash,
  • ex probates,
  • up-braid,
  • having on the carpet,
  • tongue lashed,
  • up braid,
  • haddest on carpet,
  • take task,
  • has on carpet,
  • have on carpet,
  • having the carpet,
  • has on the carpet,
  • has carpet,
  • up braided,
  • re proving,
  • hath on the carpet,
  • had on the carpet,
  • exprobated,
  • called down.
  •check (verb)
  • slackening pace,
  • re-pulsed,
  • slowing down,
  • counter-acts,
  • re buff,
  • re-duce,
  • played for time,
  • re buffing,
  • reining in,
  • nip bud,
  • re-buffed,
  • re-duces,
  • counter act,
  • re duces,
  • re-pulses,
  • nip the bud,
  • re buffed,
  • re-buffs,
  • counter-acting,
  • re pulsing,
  • re pulsed,
  • counter acted,
  • re pulses,
  • re-buffing,
  • nip in bud,
  • counter-acted,
  • re-buff,
  • counter acts,
  • re-pulsing,
  • counter-act,
  • re-pulse,
  • re duce,
  • slackens pace,
  • Bitting,
  • slows down,
  • counter acting,
  • slackened pace,
  • re pulse,
  • re buffs.
  •coerce (verb)
  • be setting,
  • twisting one's arm,
  • twists one arm,
  • puts squeeze on,
  • high pressured,
  • twisted one's arm,
  • made offer they can't refuse,
  • putting squeeze on,
  • twists one's arm,
  • make an offer they cant refuse,
  • making an offer they cant refuse,
  • made an offer they can't refuse,
  • leant on,
  • twist ones arm,
  • twists arm,
  • make offer they can't refuse,
  • twisting one arm,
  • be sets,
  • making an offer they can't refuse,
  • make offer they cant refuse,
  • leaned on,
  • makes an offer they can't refuse,
  • made an offer they cant refuse,
  • makes offer they can't refuse,
  • be-set,
  • be-sets,
  • be-setting,
  • twisting ones arm,
  • makes an offer they cant refuse,
  • concusses,
  • twisted ones arm,
  • makes offer they cant refuse,
  • strongarm,
  • twisted one arm,
  • making offer they can't refuse,
  • making offer they cant refuse,
  • twist one arm,
  • high pressures,
  • putting the squeeze on,
  • leans on,
  • twisting arm,
  • puts the squeeze on,
  • twists ones arm,
  • twisted arm,
  • made offer they cant refuse,
  • high pressuring.
  •command (verb)
  • ex acted,
  • over-ridden,
  • had authority,
  • ex acting,
  • pre vail,
  • ex-act,
  • pre scribing,
  • super intends,
  • co-ached,
  • pre vails,
  • ex-acted,
  • over born,
  • over-bears,
  • hath authority,
  • super intend,
  • ex-acts,
  • exercising power,
  • has authority,
  • pre-scribes,
  • over ridden,
  • reigning over,
  • super vising,
  • over-rode,
  • presiding over,
  • super-vised,
  • over bear,
  • co aching,
  • hast authority,
  • pre-vailed,
  • pre scribes,
  • super-intending,
  • super intending,
  • over rode,
  • overbore,
  • ex act,
  • over ride,
  • reigned over,
  • super-intend,
  • pre-scribing,
  • haddest authority,
  • reigns over,
  • over-riding,
  • pre vailing,
  • pre-vails,
  • holds office,
  • over bearing,
  • over borne,
  • pre-vail,
  • Over-bearing,
  • pre-dominated,
  • took over,
  • super vised,
  • co ached,
  • overborn,
  • ex-acting,
  • pre-dominates,
  • hadst authority,
  • co-aching,
  • held office,
  • pre-dominating,
  • pre dominates,
  • over-rides,
  • pre vailed,
  • pre-dominate,
  • over rides,
  • over-born,
  • exercises power,
  • holding office,
  • pre scribe,
  • exercised power,
  • super intended,
  • super-intended,
  • over bears,
  • over-borne,
  • pre dominating,
  • pre-scribe,
  • super vise,
  • over bore,
  • super-intends,
  • ex acts,
  • super-vise,
  • pre dominated,
  • having authority,
  • presides over,
  • over-bore,
  • pre-scribed,
  • pre dominate,
  • over riding,
  • takes over.
  •compose (verb)
  • tuned down,
  • be-calms,
  • simmers down,
  • re lax,
  • re collecting,
  • easing up,
  • be calm,
  • re-solve,
  • be calms,
  • be-calm,
  • be-calming,
  • re collected,
  • be calmed,
  • re-collected,
  • re-solves,
  • tunes down,
  • tuning down,
  • re solve,
  • simmered down,
  • eases up,
  • re-lax,
  • re-collects,
  • re collect,
  • re-solved,
  • re collects,
  • re solves,
  • simmering down,
  • re-solving,
  • re-collecting,
  • balming,
  • be calming,
  • be-calmed.
  •confine (verb)
  • putting on ice,
  • puts a lid on,
  • de tains,
  • de limits,
  • put ice,
  • de-limiting,
  • puts ice,
  • hog tie,
  • in tern,
  • putting a lid on,
  • putting ice,
  • in-terns,
  • cools down,
  • in terns,
  • de-limits,
  • de-tains,
  • de limited,
  • puts on ice,
  • de-limit,
  • de tain,
  • de limiting,
  • de-limited,
  • in-tern,
  • sending up,
  • de limit,
  • de-tain.
  •contain (verb)
  • putting half nelson on,
  • kept lid on,
  • keeps lid on,
  • puts half nelson on,
  • keeping lid on.
  •dam (verb)
  • stopt up,
  • stopping up.
  •deaden (verb)
  • de vitalized,
  • putting out of order,
  • un nerves,
  • puts out order,
  • be numbs,
  • be-numb,
  • de-adens,
  • ko'd,
  • in-capacitated,
  • de-pressed,
  • be numbing,
  • de sensitizes,
  • de-stroyed,
  • de adens,
  • de stroys,
  • de vitalizes,
  • un nerve,
  • de-aden,
  • de sensitize,
  • in-capacitating,
  • de-vitalize,
  • be numb,
  • de-pressing,
  • de-vitalizes,
  • ko'ing,
  • de-vitalized,
  • un nerved,
  • Etherized,
  • de vitalize,
  • lays out,
  • in capacitated,
  • de-stroy,
  • un-nerving,
  • in capacitate,
  • de-press,
  • in capacitates,
  • de aden,
  • koing,
  • de presses,
  • be-numbs,
  • de stroy,
  • de sensitized,
  • un nerving,
  • puts out of order,
  • be numbed,
  • in capacitating,
  • de-stroying,
  • de-stroys,
  • put out order,
  • be-numbing,
  • etherizes,
  • in-capacitate,
  • be-numbed,
  • de sensitizing,
  • de-sensitize,
  • Etherizing,
  • de pressing,
  • de stroying,
  • de press,
  • KOD,
  • in-capacitates,
  • un-nerve,
  • de pressed,
  • de-vitalizing,
  • putting out order,
  • de vitalizing,
  • putting sleep,
  • puts sleep,
  • de-sensitizing,
  • de-sensitizes,
  • put sleep,
  • de stroyed,
  • de-presses,
  • de-sensitized,
  • un-nerves.
  •defeat (verb)
  • over power,
  • over-powering,
  • sur-mount,
  • out-flanks,
  • de-feats,
  • out maneuvered,
  • prevails over,
  • over runs,
  • over throws,
  • rolling back,
  • finishing off,
  • over whelm,
  • de feats,
  • sur mounting,
  • over powering,
  • over-whelming,
  • sub jugate,
  • be sting,
  • out-flank,
  • dis comfits,
  • over-powered,
  • over-whelmed,
  • out flanking,
  • over-power,
  • out-flanked,
  • over threw,
  • over-throw,
  • sur-mounted,
  • over-throws,
  • sur mounts,
  • de-feat,
  • over-threw,
  • over whelms,
  • prevailing over,
  • prevailed over,
  • finishes off,
  • over-whelms,
  • dis-comfit,
  • over thrown,
  • out flank,
  • dis-comfits,
  • rolls back,
  • over-throwing,
  • de feat,
  • out-maneuver,
  • out-maneuvered,
  • sur mounted,
  • rolled back,
  • sur-mounting,
  • up-sets,
  • up-set,
  • over-powers,
  • dis comfit,
  • out maneuvering,
  • out flanks,
  • sub-jugate,
  • over powered,
  • over powers,
  • out flanked,
  • over running,
  • over throw,
  • sur-mounts,
  • over run,
  • over-thrown,
  • out-maneuvers,
  • sur mount,
  • up setting,
  • up sets,
  • over-whelm,
  • over throwing,
  • out maneuvers,
  • out-maneuvering,
  • be-sting,
  • over-running,
  • up-setting,
  • over whelmed,
  • over whelming,
  • out-flanking.
  •delay (verb)
  • bides time,
  • pro-rogue,
  • pro-roguing,
  • pro long,
  • de laying,
  • pro-long,
  • gains time,
  • pro rogued,
  • pro-tract,
  • inter fere,
  • post pones,
  • gained time,
  • dilly dally,
  • pro roguing,
  • pro-rogues,
  • inter feres,
  • pro-longs,
  • bided time,
  • post pone,
  • inter-fere,
  • de-laying,
  • inter-feres,
  • gaining time,
  • laying over,
  • biding time,
  • bode time,
  • de lay,
  • pro-rogued,
  • laid over,
  • intermits,
  • pro-longed,
  • lays over,
  • pro rogue,
  • pro tracts,
  • post-pone,
  • post-pones,
  • pro rogues,
  • de lays,
  • pro longs,
  • de-lays,
  • pro-longing,
  • pro longing,
  • pro-tracts,
  • pro tract,
  • holds over,
  • de-lay.
  •discourage (verb)
  • over-awing,
  • dis-advising,
  • dis inclined,
  • dis-countenancing,
  • dis courages,
  • de moralizing,
  • de-moralize,
  • over awes,
  • beats down,
  • dis-favoring,
  • dis countenanced,
  • dis tresses,
  • breaking one heart,
  • dis-advise,
  • over-awe,
  • break ones heart,
  • dis-inclined,
  • dis advising,
  • de moralizes,
  • turns aside,
  • broke heart,
  • dis advised,
  • dis mays,
  • talks out of,
  • breaks one's heart,
  • de moralized,
  • in-disposes,
  • broke one's heart,
  • beating down,
  • holds off,
  • dis maying,
  • dis incline,
  • in dispose,
  • breaks heart,
  • dis inclining,
  • threw cold water on,
  • dis-may,
  • dis-advises,
  • dis mayed,
  • dis-courages,
  • throwing cold water on,
  • dis-advised,
  • dis-mayed,
  • disadvised,
  • over awed,
  • dis countenancing,
  • dis may,
  • dis countenances,
  • broke ones heart,
  • over awing,
  • break heart,
  • dis-countenances,
  • in disposes,
  • broke one heart,
  • dis-inclining,
  • break one heart,
  • breaks ones heart,
  • breaking one's heart,
  • in disposed,
  • indisposes,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis-tresses,
  • brake heart,
  • casts down,
  • breaking heart,
  • dis advises,
  • dis advise,
  • dis-countenance,
  • over-awes,
  • de moralize,
  • disadvises,
  • dis tress,
  • in disposing,
  • dis favor,
  • disadvising,
  • in-disposed,
  • brake one heart,
  • dis courage,
  • dis inclines,
  • over awe,
  • dis-favors,
  • dis-incline,
  • dis favored,
  • breaks one heart,
  • talked out of,
  • de-moralizing,
  • dis favors,
  • in-disposing,
  • de-moralizes,
  • over-awed,
  • dis-mays,
  • breaking ones heart,
  • brake one's heart,
  • in-dispose,
  • dis-tressed,
  • brake ones heart,
  • dis favoring,
  • dis countenance,
  • dis-favor,
  • dis-maying,
  • dis-favored,
  • dis-countenanced,
  • throws cold water on,
  • dis tressed,
  • de-moralized,
  • dis-courage,
  • dis-inclines.
  •fetter (verb)
  • putting straitjacket on,
  • threw monkey wrench in,
  • holding captive,
  • puts straitjacket on,
  • hangs up,
  • hanging up,
  • holds captive,
  • held captive,
  • hanged up,
  • dragging feet,
  • throwing monkey wrench in,
  • drags feet,
  • throws monkey wrench in,
  • dragged feet.
  •fight back/fight off (verb)
  • re-plied,
  • holding at bay,
  • fended off,
  • holds at bay,
  • putting fight,
  • keeps at bay,
  • keep bay,
  • puts fight,
  • putting up fight,
  • re plying,
  • puts up fight,
  • put fight,
  • holding bay,
  • held at bay,
  • beating off,
  • re plied,
  • hold bay,
  • keeping at bay,
  • beats off,
  • kept bay,
  • keeps bay,
  • held bay,
  • holds bay,
  • re-plying,
  • keeping bay.
  •gag (verb)
  • tongue ties,
  • tongue tying,
  • tonguetied,
  • tonguetying,
  • taping up,
  • tongue-ties,
  • tongueties,
  • tongue tied,
  • kept the lid on,
  • tapes up,
  • keeping the lid on,
  • corks up,
  • tonguetie,
  • taped up,
  • keeps the lid on,
  • tongue-tying.
  •inhibit (verb)
  • putting brakes,
  • inter-dict,
  • puts on brakes,
  • out-lawing,
  • puts brakes,
  • inter dict,
  • keeps in,
  • putting on brakes,
  • out-lawed,
  • put brakes,
  • out lawing,
  • out lawed.
  •keep back, hold in (verb)
  • jam up,
  • curb,
  • lock,
  • silence,
  • cork,
  • quash,
  • black out,
  • subjugate,
  • hold back,
  • muffle,
  • crush,
  • master,
  • gridlock,
  • swallow,
  • quelch,
  • collect,
  • tie up,
  • kill,
  • bottle,
  • shush,
  • hinder,
  • overpower.
  •moderate (verb)
  • sub-sides,
  • eased off,
  • sub sides,
  • de-creased,
  • de crease,
  • de-crease,
  • de-creasing,
  • de cline,
  • cooled out,
  • de-clines,
  • cooling out,
  • de-creases,
  • eases off,
  • sub side,
  • dieing down,
  • cools out,
  • sub sided,
  • de-cline,
  • softpedal,
  • de creasing,
  • met halfway,
  • de creases,
  • de creased,
  • de clines.
  •muzzle (verb)
  • clamps down on,
  • dummies up,
  • clamped down on,
  • clamping down on,
  • dries up,
  • cracked down on,
  • cracks down on,
  • dummying up.
  •oppose (verb)
  • repulse,
  • counteract,
  • conflict,
  • cross,
  • oppress,
  • intercept,
  • disagree,
  • obstruct,
  • protest,
  • repel,
  • oppose,
  • object,
  • counterattack,
  • confront,
  • antagonize,
  • rebuff,
  • counter,
  • dispute,
  • challenge,
  • meddle,
  • interfere,
  • contradict,
  • defy,
  • resist,
  • impede.
  •pacify (verb)
  • taking the edge off,
  • kissed and make up,
  • taking edge off,
  • lays back,
  • kissing make up,
  • kisses and make up,
  • buried the hatchet,
  • smoothed over,
  • bury hatchet,
  • burying hatchet,
  • kiss make up,
  • kissing and make up,
  • buries hatchet,
  • making peace,
  • smooths over,
  • took edge off,
  • took the edge off,
  • made peace,
  • takes edge off,
  • kissed make up,
  • pacificating,
  • pacificates,
  • kisses make up,
  • smoothing over,
  • laying back,
  • makes peace,
  • takes the edge off,
  • take edge off,
  • pacificated,
  • buried hatchet,
  • buries the hatchet,
  • burying the hatchet.
  •prevent (verb)
  • putting end to,
  • puts a stop to,
  • putting an end to,
  • de-bars,
  • fore stalling,
  • pre-vented,
  • fore stall,
  • fore-stalled,
  • puts stop to,
  • defended against,
  • pre venting,
  • pre-venting,
  • de bar,
  • forfended,
  • puts an end to,
  • defends against,
  • fore stalls,
  • pre-vent,
  • de-barring,
  • inter-cept,
  • forfends,
  • de barred,
  • inter cept,
  • pre vents,
  • defending against,
  • de-barred,
  • pre vent,
  • de bars,
  • puts end to,
  • de-bar,
  • pre-vents,
  • fore-stalls,
  • putting stop to,
  • fore-stall,
  • pre vented,
  • de barring,
  • putting a stop to,
  • forfending,
  • fore-stalling.
  •put down (verb)
  • dis-missing,
  • dis missed,
  • dis-missed,
  • dis missing.
  •quash (verb)
  • snows under,
  • over-coming,
  • over-comes,
  • over come,
  • over comes,
  • over coming,
  • snowing under.
  •restrain (verb)
  • re-strains,
  • pro-scribed,
  • re-straining,
  • keeping down,
  • cracked down,
  • choked back,
  • pro scribed,
  • keep line,
  • keeps down,
  • keeps line,
  • keeps in line,
  • keeping line,
  • pro-scribe,
  • re straining,
  • cracks down,
  • sate on,
  • re strained,
  • pro scribe,
  • cracking down,
  • kept in line,
  • pro scribes,
  • kept line,
  • chokes back,
  • re-strained,
  • re-strain,
  • choking back,
  • pro scribing,
  • sits on,
  • re strains,
  • keeping in line,
  • re strain.
  •smother (verb)
  • sur-rounding,
  • sur-rounded,
  • sur rounding,
  • in-undated,
  • sur rounded,
  • in undated.
  •squelch (verb)
  • quelches,
  • quelched,
  • quelching.
  •stifle (verb)
  • brings to screeching halt,
  • bring screeching halt,
  • bringing screeching halt,
  • brought screeching halt,
  • clams up,
  • held it down,
  • brought to screeching halt,
  • clamps down,
  • holds it down,
  • holding it down,
  • brings screeching halt,
  • clamped down,
  • bringing to screeching halt.
  •stop (verb)
  • chokes off.
  •strangle (verb)
  • garrotegarrottes,
  • garrote garrotted,
  • garrotegarrotted,
  • garrote-garrottes,
  • garrotegarrotte,
  • garrote garrotte,
  • garrote garrottes,
  • garrotegarrotting,
  • garrote-garrotted,
  • garrote-garrotting,
  • garrote-garrotte,
  • garrote garrotting.
  •subdue (verb)
  • triumphing over,
  • gets the upper hand,
  • gat upper hand,
  • gets the better of,
  • sub-due,
  • getting under control,
  • gat under control,
  • gotten the better of,
  • gat the upper hand,
  • got upper hand,
  • get better of,
  • got better of,
  • gets upper hand,
  • getting the better of,
  • triumphs over,
  • gat the better of,
  • gotten the upper hand,
  • sub due,
  • gets under control,
  • got under control,
  • triumphed over,
  • got the better of,
  • gotten better of,
  • gotten upper hand,
  • sub dues,
  • sub-dues,
  • getting better of,
  • gets better of,
  • got the upper hand,
  • gat better of,
  • getting upper hand,
  • getting the upper hand,
  • gotten under control.
  •sublimate (verb)
  • re directs,
  • re-directing,
  • re directed,
  • re directing,
  • re-directed,
  • re direct,
  • re-direct,
  • re-directs.
  •suppress (verb)
  • putting kibosh on,
  • puts kibosh on.
  •tame (verb)
  • house training,
  • house trains,
  • breaks the spirit,
  • breaking the spirit,
  • house trained,
  • bringing to heel,
  • house-trains,
  • broke the spirit,
  • brought heel,
  • housetraining,
  • housetrains,
  • house train,
  • brake spirit,
  • brought to heel,
  • brings heel,
  • broke spirit,
  • break spirit,
  • housetrained,
  • bring heel,
  • breaks spirit,
  • breaking spirit,
  • bringing heel,
  • domiciliates,
  • house-training,
  • brake the spirit,
  • brings to heel.
  •tread (verb)
  • steps on,
  • stamped on,
  • stamps on,
  • stamping on.
  •vanquish (verb)
  • over-turning,
  • over turning,
  • over-turn,
  • over turns.
  •withdraw (verb)
  • dis-solves,
  • re tired,
  • un says,
  • dis-claims,
  • dis claimed,
  • dis-avowing,
  • re-nigs,
  • in-validate,
  • re calls,
  • re-tiring,
  • dis solving,
  • re canting,
  • dis avows,
  • un say,
  • in validate,
  • re-canting,
  • re-versed,
  • dis avow,
  • dis-claim,
  • dis claims,
  • re tire,
  • re-canted,
  • with-draw,
  • re nigs,
  • dis-claimed,
  • in-validated,
  • re versing,
  • un-say,
  • re-calling,
  • un saying,
  • dis claim,
  • re verse,
  • re nigging,
  • re-nigging,
  • re-nigged,
  • dis solves,
  • re-nig,
  • dis solve,
  • re calling,
  • dis-avow,
  • dis solved,
  • re-verse,
  • re-call,
  • dis avowing,
  • dis-solve,
  • with-draws,
  • renigs,
  • re-tire,
  • un-saying,
  • with draws,
  • with drawn,
  • re tires,
  • dis claiming,
  • dis-avows,
  • with-drawing,
  • renigged,
  • dis-solving,
  • in validated,
  • dis-avowed,
  • in validating,
  • in-validates,
  • un-says,
  • in validates,
  • re-called,
  • dis-solved,
  • renigging,
  • with drawing,
  • with draw,
  • re-calls,
  • in-validating,
  • with-drawn,
  • with-drew,
  • dis avowed,
  • re tiring,
  • with drew,
  • re nig,
  • re nigged,
  • dis-claiming.
  •withhold (verb)
  • with-holds,
  • stopped oneself,
  • holding out on,
  • keep under one hat,
  • de-ducts,
  • keeping under one hat,
  • keeps under wraps,
  • re fused,
  • dis allowed,
  • keeps under hat,
  • keep under hat,
  • keeps under ones hat,
  • re fuses,
  • dis-allows,
  • re serving,
  • keeping under hat,
  • kept under wraps,
  • re-tains,
  • kept oneself,
  • keeping under wraps,
  • dis-allow,
  • with-holding,
  • keep under ones hat,
  • re-tain,
  • keeping oneself,
  • kept to oneself,
  • keeps to oneself,
  • de duct,
  • re-serve,
  • holds out on,
  • stopping oneself,
  • dis allows,
  • re fuse,
  • keeps under one hat,
  • kept under hat,
  • re-fuse,
  • keeps oneself,
  • keeps under one's hat,
  • with-hold,
  • dis allowing,
  • de-duct,
  • keeping under ones hat,
  • de-ducting,
  • de ducts,
  • with held,
  • re served,
  • re tains,
  • kept under one hat,
  • re-fused,
  • keeping under one's hat,
  • dis allow,
  • kept under one's hat,
  • stops oneself,
  • stopt oneself,
  • re-served,
  • re serve,
  • re-serves,
  • dis-allowed,
  • de ducting,
  • with-held,
  • with holding,
  • re tain,
  • re-serving,
  • de ducted,
  • de-ducted,
  • dis-allowing,
  • held out on,
  • re fusing,
  • kept under ones hat,
  • keep oneself,
  • with holds,
  • with hold.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fight down,
  • efface,
  • dissemble,
  • hide,
  • gulp back,
  • choke back,
  • live down,
  • block out,
  • force back,
  • conceal,
  • dissimulate.
  •
  • bite back,
  • mask,
  • hush,
  • blank out,
  • exorcise,
  • forget,
  • blot out.
  •
  • stand back,
  • fight back,
  • elude,
  • disguise,
  • maintain,
  • deny,
  • leave behind,
  • quiet,
  • obliterate.
  •
  • erase.
  •
  • sit,
  • blank,
  • fade,
  • bury.
  •
  • school,
  • escape,
  • space.
  •
  • leave.
  •bottle up
  • keeps back,
  • Entrapped,
  • corked,
  • cover up,
  • hold down,
  • bring to naught,
  • covering up,
  • keeping back,
  • holding in,
  • keep feeling inside oneself,
  • cooped up,
  • held in,
  • shut in,
  • corking,
  • box up,
  • holds back,
  • keep back,
  • covers up,
  • coop up,
  • held down,
  • kept back,
  • hold in,
  • covered up,
  • kept secret,
  • keep secret.
  •command
  • overbears,
  • over-ride,
  • Tyrannized,
  • have authority,
  • Wielding,
  • hold office,
  • presided over,
  • take over,
  • overbear,
  • over-bear,
  • prevails,
  • taking over,
  • predominates,
  • overborne,
  • preside over,
  • exercise power,
  • reign over.
  •compose
  • eased up,
  • placate,
  • balmed,
  • Slackened,
  • slackens,
  • ease up,
  • quell,
  • tune down,
  • Re-collect,
  • relaxes,
  • soothe,
  • simmer down.
  •contain
  • put half nelson on,
  • keep lid on.
  •defeat
  • over-runs,
  • Shipwrecking,
  • mows down,
  • prevail over,
  • torpedo,
  • torpedoing,
  • finish off,
  • torpedoed,
  • mowed down,
  • scatters,
  • Parried,
  • mowing down,
  • Torpedoes,
  • finished off,
  • up set,
  • shipwreck,
  • over-run,
  • out maneuver,
  • mow down,
  • roll back,
  • Trashed,
  • shipwrecks.
  •gag
  • Shying,
  • cork up,
  • garrote,
  • tongue tie,
  • corked up,
  • corking up,
  • garrotes,
  • tape up,
  • keep the lid on,
  • tongue-tie,
  • Garroting,
  • shies,
  • Garroted.
  •moderate
  • dies down,
  • died down,
  • ease off,
  • Downs,
  • easing off,
  • downed,
  • cool out,
  • die down,
  • dying down,
  • downing,
  • soft pedal.
  •pacify
  • take the edge off,
  • lay back,
  • make peace,
  • pacifies,
  • laid back,
  • smooth over,
  • kiss and make up,
  • pacificate.
  •quash
  • snow under,
  • Quashed,
  • snowed under.
  •restrain
  • pulled back,
  • lock up,
  • ties down,
  • pinions,
  • tied down,
  • pulling back,
  • sitting on,
  • tying down,
  • pinioned,
  • pulls back,
  • locked up,
  • crack down,
  • pull back,
  • hogtie,
  • keep in line,
  • kept down,
  • Pinioning,
  • locking up,
  • pinion.
  •stop
  • Bottled,
  • staunching,
  • occlude,
  • Stoppering,
  • choking off,
  • staunches,
  • staunched,
  • stoppered,
  • Bottling,
  • choked off.
  •tread
  • hoofing,
  • stepping on,
  • footed,
  • Trooped,
  • stamp on,
  • stepped on,
  • Trooping,
  • hoofed,
  • step on,
  • Striding.
  •withdraw
  • unsays,
  • unsaying,
  • Withdrew,
  • renig,
  • unsay.
  •Other relevant words:
  • obtund,
  • smash,
  • besides,
  • asphyxiate,
  • humble,
  • get over,
  • boil down,
  • intimidate,
  • handicap,
  • retain,
  • enslave,
  • truculence,
  • interrupt,
  • set back,
  • obdurate,
  • respectively,
  • refractory,
  • govern,
  • abuse,
  • persistent,
  • come down,
  • regulate,
  • trim back,
  • trample underfoot,
  • dishearten,
  • stem,
  • eliminate,
  • overmaster,
  • shut down,
  • annihilate,
  • interdiction,
  • stagger,
  • curtail,
  • stamp down,
  • still,
  • frustrate,
  • beat against,
  • neither,
  • sit down on,
  • demolish,
  • bulldoze,
  • cut,
  • pugnacity,
  • onslaught,
  • save up,
  • override,
  • die young,
  • oh,
  • preclude,
  • douse,
  • detain,
  • forbid,
  • allay,
  • repeal,
  • maltreat,
  • harry,
  • thrash,
  • tyrannize,
  • harshness,
  • oppression,
  • emasculate,
  • blanket,
  • hush up,
  • dampen,
  • keep under,
  • unman,
  • inhibition,
  • mollify,
  • shorten,
  • proscribe,
  • dwindle,
  • morsel,
  • prohibit,
  • arrest,
  • dilute,
  • scotch,
  • reduce,
  • abridge,
  • melt off,
  • trim,
  • choke off,
  • conquer,
  • hardship,
  • domesticate,
  • hugger mugger,
  • shut off,
  • put out,
  • countercheck,
  • snub,
  • or,
  • void,
  • slacken,
  • walk all over,
  • conflict with,
  • cushion,
  • actually,
  • dull,
  • withstand,
  • clash,
  • overwhelm,
  • likewise,
  • simplify,
  • ban,
  • cease,
  • interdict,
  • debar,
  • hamper,
  • unwieldy,
  • thin out,
  • harass,
  • snuff out,
  • beat,
  • quelling,
  • hold up,
  • cut back,
  • damp,
  • embargo,
  • number,
  • obstinate,
  • furthermore,
  • shut out,
  • solemn,
  • piece,
  • intractable,
  • suffocate,
  • slow,
  • sad,
  • discouragement,
  • surround,
  • declare invalid,
  • shrink,
  • halt,
  • bar,
  • Intermeddle,
  • persecute,
  • throttle,
  • render insensible,
  • terminate,
  • lord it over,
  • taboo,
  • bend back,
  • react,
  • browbeat,
  • crumb,
  • appropriate,
  • either,
  • but,
  • abolish,
  • exclude,
  • grind down,
  • deprecate,
  • austere,
  • weaken,
  • make subservient,
  • humiliate,
  • call off,
  • maybe,
  • nullify,
  • trample upon,
  • tone down,
  • deter,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • discontinue,
  • Despotize,
  • hush-hush,
  • invalidate,
  • bully,
  • get rid of,
  • constrain,
  • recoil,
  • rigid,
  • persist,
  • scrap,
  • compel,
  • block,
  • annul,
  • aggressiveness,
  • severe,
  • eradicate,
  • reserve,
  • rigorous,
  • stamp out,
  • retard,
  • stultify,
  • wait,
  • pitiless,
  • brutal,
  • break,
  • moreover,
  • attack,
  • Henpeck,
  • cow,
  • grind,
  • deafen,
  • sit on,
  • decelerate,
  • containment,
  • contract,
  • hold,
  • repression,
  • domineer,
  • reclaim,
  • bate,
  • sit upon,
  • contravene,
  • overthrow,
  • bit,
  • subordinate,
  • avoid,
  • chill,
  • trample down,
  • choke down,
  • go against,
  • act,
  • tighten,
  • refuse,
  • keep quiet,
  • tabu,
  • reject,
  • extirpate,
  • bring down,
  • rule out,
  • perhaps,
  • severally,
  • contrary,
  • everywhere,
  • cut down,
  • alas,
  • crackdown,
  • deoxidize,
  • preserve,
  • trim down,
  • dissuade,
  • hard,
  • Retund,
  • stave,
  • mitigate,
  • abbreviate,
  • prohibition,
  • introvert,
  • save,
  • Disedge,
  • tread down,
  • dominate,
  • lock in,
  • halter,
  • too,
  • dispirit,
  • terrorise,
  • push back,
  • run against,
  • stubborn,
  • according to,
  • pare,
  • cruel,
  • thin,
  • heavy,
  • exterminate,
  • keep,
  • turn,
  • soften,
  • end,
  • terrorize,
  • disallow,
  • stay,
  • suppression,
  • interfere with,
  • perverse,
  • also,
  • unmanageable,
  • temper,
  • intervene,
  • concentrate,
  • exclude from,
  • foreshorten,
  • daunt,
  • stamp,
  • lose weight,
  • grim,
  • calm,
  • mortify,
  • decoct,
  • trammel,
  • enjoin,
  • apiece,
  • scale down,
  • outlaw,
  • appease,
  • destroy,
  • brutality,
  • cruelty,
  • circumscribe,
  • clog,
  • hold fast,
  • propitiate,
  • jostle,
  • restrict,
  • say no to,
  • squash,
  • Cohibit,
  • withal,
  • deviation,
  • atrocity,
  • jump on,
  • extinguish,
  • castrate,
  • hold under,
  • drown,
  • slim down,
  • break in two,
  • blunt,
  • exclamatory,
  • mute,
  • anywhere,
  • stanch,
  • traverse,
  • action,
  • merciless,
  • dam up,
  • nasty,
  • shake.

Paraphrases for Repress:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    Suppressing, suppress, repressed.
  • Verb, base form
    quell, suppress.

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    oppress, stifle, curb, restrain, punish, crush, criminalize, stop, penalize, deter, restrict, prosecute, dampen, curtail, interdict, counter, prevent, eradicate, eliminate, quash, combat, Combating, prohibit, address, counteract, discourage, respond, halt.

Antonyms for Repress:

• v.

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

Homophones for Repress:

• rubberize, rephrase, reprocess, River Kasai, reovirus, reverse, reappraise, roof rack, reproach, rerebrace, repercuss, repurchase, reprise, row of bricks, rubric, refresh, ropebark, rubberise, reforge, river horse, reprize, revers.

Hyponym for Repress:

• v.

  • change
    change.
  • cognition
    forget, bury.
  • social
    impede, hinder.