英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpɹɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

動詞

repress (三人称単数 現在形 represses, 現在分詞 repressing, 過去形および過去分詞形 repressed)

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

   to repress rebellion or sedition

   to repress the first risings of discontent

2. (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 542–544, page 37:

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

同意語

• (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing): to crush; to quell; to subdue; to suppress
• (to keep back): to restrain; to hold back

関連する語

• repression
• repressive
• repressor

語源 2

re- +‎ press

動詞

repress (三人称単数 現在形 represses, 現在分詞 repressing, 過去形および過去分詞形 repressed)

1. To press again.

   to repress a vinyl record

名詞

repress (複数形 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.