1. (v. t.) To press down; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to suppress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress a memory\.

2. (v. t.) To press again.

3. (v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.

4. (n.) The act of repressing.

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