repress
verbEtymology
Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“to repress”).
- derived from repressus
Definitions
To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- to repress rebellion or sedition
- to repress the first risings of discontent
To check
To check; to keep back.
- Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,
To press again.
- to repress a vinyl record
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A record pressed again
A record pressed again; a repressing.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- neighborrepression
- neighborrepressive
- neighborrepressor
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at repress. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at repress. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at repress
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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