English-Dutch translations for repress

• bedwingen
  Minister Wathelet is waarschijnlijk van al zijn Europese collega's degene die om pedofilie en seksueel misbruik van kinderen te bedwingen zijn nationale wetgeving het meest heeft gewijzigd. Mr Wathelet was probably the European minister who did most to amend national legislation to repress paedophilia and the sexual abuse of children.

Definition of repress

• To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further
• To check; to keep back
• To press again
• A record pressed again; a repressing

Synonyms

• crush
• quell
• subdue
• suppress
• restrain
• hold back

Examples

• to repress rebellion or sedition
• to repress the first risings of discontent
• to repress a vinyl record

Related words

• repressed
• repression
• repressive
• irrepressible
• irrepressibly
• repressor
• corepressor
• repressible
• derepression