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Examples of repress
repress
Grant resorted to military solutions and used US soldiers to repress the tribes.
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A number of traps are in place to monitor the island and repress any resurgence.
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Androgen receptors have co-factors that can activate or repress their activity.
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Therefore, OsMADS57 has the ability to repress transcription of its target genes.
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It won't help to deny or repress these feelings, so start by identifying them.
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Did humans evolve this moral code to repress certain behaviors and promote others?
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This means the two hormones compete to activate or repress many of the same genes.
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One is that it will only repress popular frustrations, to erupt anew in the future.
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To leave them sitting on a trestle would be to repress the natural order of things.
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- Put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
- Smother: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- Suppress: put out of one's consciousness
- Block the action of
- (repressed) pent-up: characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions; "her severe upbringing had left her inhibited"; "a very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease"; "their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions"; "repressed rage turned his face scarlet"
- (repressing) inhibitory: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"
- "Repressed" is a single by Apocalyptica, released on May 19, 2006.
- The act of repressing; To press again; To prevent forcefully an upheaval from developing further; Hence, to check; to keep back
- (repressing) The application of pressure to a previously pressed and sintered powder metallurgy compact, usually for the purpose of improving some physical or mechanical property or for dimensional accuracy.
