repressverb [ T ]
uk/rɪˈpres/us/rɪˈpres/to not allow something, especially feelings, to be expressed:
He repressed a sudden desire to cry.
to control what people do, especially by using force
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Controlling emotions
- bottle
- bottle sth up
- brave
- breaking point
- choke
- choke sth back
- collected
- compose
- cork
- emotional blackmail idiom
- frustrated
- give voice to sth idiom
- gulp sth back
- harden
- put on a brave face idiom
- repressed
- self-possession
- steadily
- swallow
- temper
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