repress
/ɹəˈpɹɛs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A record pressed again; a repressing.
Example Sentences
- "to repress rebellion or sedition"
- "to repress the first risings of discontent"
- "Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,"
- "to repress a vinyl record"
- "It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn."
- "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."
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“to repress”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: repressus