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clamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, put down, quash, quell, silence, slap down, snuff (out), squash, squelch, subdue, suppress
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Religious groups were severely repressed. quickly repressed the rebellion in the provincial city and restored orderRecent Examples on the Web: Verb
This also is the country that represses women and civil rights. — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, "Letters: Beware political infighting; Missing crucial Senate work; BLM move is suspect; The support Hong Kong needs (7/31/19)," 31 July 2019 According to Harris’s campaign, black homeownership has historically been repressed by a number of factors, including redlining, the practice of lenders refusing to issue mortgages to majority black neighborhoods. — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, "Kamala Harris has a $100 billion plan to close the black homeownership gap," 8 July 2019 The youth are used as sort of like an apparatus to repress. — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, "“Just Keep Going North”," 5 July 2019 His victory was an earthquake in the Arab World, where the Brotherhood had been an underground movement for decades - both feared and repressed by autocratic leaders. — Tim Lister, CNN, "Mohamed Morsy: A polarizing legacy," 17 June 2019 The revolution ushered in an era of political chaos and instability in Egypt, which has continued to repress its citizens. — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, "What was the Arab Spring and how did it spread?," 29 Mar. 2019 Looking for: My feelings for an intellectual equal with fine eyes cannot be repressed. — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, "To date or not to date," 19 June 2019 Robertson explains that stoicism is not about passivity or concealing and repressing emotion. — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Stoicism and the art of happiness," 24 June 2019 But there were too few like Díaz, and the excitement of that day was quickly repressed. — Natalie Gallón, CNN, "They risked everything for Guaidó. Now Venezuela's military defectors are lost," 4 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'repress.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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