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発音

• IPA: /ɹəˈpɹɛs/
• 韻: -ɛs

動詞

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

   Synonyms: crush, put down, quell, subdue, suppress, tread

   to repress rebellion or sedition

   to repress the first risings of discontent

2. (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.

   Synonyms: restrain, hold back; see also Thesaurus:curb

   • 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 37, lines 542–544:

     Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,

派生語

関連する語

• repression
• repressive
• repressor

語源 2

From re- +‎ press.

動詞

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. To press again.

   to repress a vinyl record

   • 2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), pages 300-301:

     It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn.

名詞

repress (plural represses)

1. A record pressed again; a repressing.
   • 2010, Clinton Heylin, Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry:

     Save for the shows he actually taped — Dylan, Springsteen, Page & Plant and other kindred spirits — his own titles by 1994 were just represses of hard-to-find Japanese or American titles.

アナグラム

• Presser, presser