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repress

Synonyms

Verb

1. quash

2. keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce, oppress, suppress, crush, smother

3. stifle, strangle, muffle, suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb, suppress

4. forget, bury

Usage
The Structural Rebuilding of Repression in Post-2011 Egypt - horn review
European Parliament Presses for Action to End Transnational Repression - Human Rights Watch
Mozambique journalists face killings and silence as repression deepens - RFI
‘An act of political repression’: Minnesota attorneys, activists react to protester charges - MPR News
Anatomy of Repression - Georgia: 500 Days of Protest, Crackdown and Resilience - Amnesty International USA
While the War Raged On: Repression in Iran - JINSA
Democracies Are Scrambling to Respond as Transnational Repression Worsens - Council on Foreign Relations
Report on the PRC’s Transnational Repression and Malign Influence in 2025 - CECC | (.gov)
Iran: Mass arbitrary arrests and political executions mark intensifying repression - Amnesty International
ATP13A2 restrains macrophage NLRP3 inflammasome activation to repress neurodegeneration via modulating mitochondrial homeostasis - PNAS
UN: Nicaragua Wielding Gender for Political Repression - Mirage News
Does the body really ‘keep the score’ after trauma? How the debunked idea of ‘repressed memories’ is making a comeback - The Conversation
Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule: Governance Through Systematic Repression and Gender Apartheid - Modern Diplomacy
Collaboration and Resistance: Tracking Transnational Repression in 2025 - Freedom House
Repression in Belarus Includes Systematic Reshaping of Cultural Space, UN Special Rapporteur Says - REFORM.news (ранее REFORM.by)
The Architecture of Digital Repression - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
‘Congress is trying to repress my teaching’: MIT professor sues Congress for antisemitic label - The Bay State Banner
FIDH publishes a report on the repression of the solidarity movement with Palestine - Fédération internationale pour les droits humains
Penal repression of serious violations of international humanitarian law – Factsheet - ICRC
Gulf States: Repression of Migrant Workers During Conflict - Human Rights Watch
China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang - Council on Foreign Relations
How Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism - Columbia Journalism Review
Vietnam: Repression Intensifies Amid Political Turmoil - Human Rights Watch
Does the body really "keep the score" after trauma? How the debunked idea of "repressed memories" is making a comeback - PsyPost
How AI is Powering Transnational Repression - Tech Policy Press
New Lines Institute Launches Scholarly Working Group on Transnational Repression with Event on Capitol Hill - New Lines Institute
Amnesty International: Georgian authorities have built a ‘sophisticated architecture of repression’ - Georgia Today
China: Repression Deepens, Extends Abroad - Human Rights Watch
Kansas Legislature unites against plague of ‘transnational repression’ by countries, terrorists - Kansas Reflector
Tanzania: Authorities instil climate of fear and step up repression ahead of general elections - Amnesty International
Opinion | Dictatorships are sending a message: You can’t run - The Washington Post
Heavy repression in Geneva as G7 summit opens - Freedom News -
Iranian Authorities ‌‌Brutally Repressing Protests - Human Rights Watch
TNR Watch: Pakistan’s Intensifying Campaign of Transnational Repression - Freedom House
Cuba: The State represses women human rights defenders - Amnesty International
Plants repress ROS1 expression to attenuate heat-induced transposon burst - Nature
Canada cannot tackle repression in the country by deporting perpetrators back to oppress others: Linking transnational repression in Canada to rights violations and atrocities committed abroad - Justice in Conflict
Transnational Repression Grew in 2025—and It Will Only Get Worse - Council on Foreign Relations
Iran Endgame? Protests, Repression, and the Trump Administration - The Washington Institute
A Kinder, Gentler Repression - First Things
Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how - The Conversation
UN experts call for end to Russia authorities’ repression of civil society - Jurist.org
Iran at a Crossroads: Panel Warns of Deepening Repression and a Crisis of Legitimacy - Harvard Kennedy School
Women, child repression cases: HC sets precedent for priority hearing of death references - Dhaka Tribune
Cell-cycle-dependent repression of histone gene transcription by histone H4 - Nature
The Playbook of Repression: Discourse Management and Thought Policing by the State Hydra in India - Verfassungsblog
Dietary lipids induce PPARd and BCL6 to repress macrophage IL-23 induction after intestinal injury and LPS exposure - Nature
Russian Authorities Launch More Repression Against Dissidents - The Jamestown Foundation
Reverse Restrictions and Repression of Protests Around the World - Human Rights Watch
Georgia: A ‘cautionary tale’ of how state institutions can become tools of repression - Amnesty International UK
Is It Possible to Forget Something That Happened to You in the Past? - Verywell Mind
Repression in Xi’s China - Dissent Magazine
New EU report urges more aggressive action against transnational repression - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ
About 5 million lei allocated in 2026 for political repression victims’ compensation - Radio Moldova
Policing Has Always Been a Tool to Repress the Working Class - Truthout
How Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism: Columbia Journalism Review - The Citizen Lab
Russia’s repression record - Committee to Protect Journalists
Repression Through Interpol - Verfassungsblog
Why ICE is responding to protests with repression - Good Authority
DAZE and TRUSTKILL release vinyl repress of TURMOIL's 'The Process Of' - Lambgoat
Book: Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel - Charity & Security Network
Life in Iran, Amid Repression and War - The New Yorker
Examining Rising Repression in East Africa - Kenya: The Decline of a Sanctuary - Harvard Kennedy School
Leaders tighten control as repression shapes Iraq’s 2025 elections - ACLED
UN high commissioner urges Guinea authorities to end repression ahead of presidential election - Jurist.org
Canada: Confront China’s Heightened Repression - Human Rights Watch
Maduro Is Gone, but Repression in Venezuela Has Intensified - The New York Times
Cubans take to streets amidst blackouts, shortages, U.S. threats and increased repression - Latin America Reports
Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy - The Conversation
Repression at Home Fuels Aggression Abroad: Now Is Not the Time to Ease Up on Lukashenka - Freedom House
China’s Repression Still Haunts Uyghur Exiles - Human Rights Watch
Coordinated active repression operates via transcription factor cooperativity and multiple inactive promoter states in a developing organism - Nature
Civil Society Repression Internationally and Historically Within in the United States - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Thailand Has Become Southeast Asia’s Hub of Transnational Repression - Council on Foreign Relations
UN warns Myanmar’s planned elections will deepen repression and instability - UN News
Compromise Now, Repress Later: Lessons from 'The General' - JAPAN Forward
Public freedoms in danger : alarm over repression in France - Fédération internationale pour les droits humains
Dismissing China’s Repression in Xinjiang - CounterPunch.org
New Report Exposes UC Berkeley’s Repression of Pro-Palestinian Speech Likely Violate Civil Rights Laws - Palestine Legal
Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence - Human Rights Watch
Ethiopia: Systematic repression of human rights defenders exposes the failure of Post-2018 Reforms and reveals the urgent need of protection - Fédération internationale pour les droits humains
Financial repression: How Europe's banks landed in the authoritarian toolbox - Euractiv
Joining forces to tackle transnational repression: mapping trends and improving responses - EEAS
Synthetic dissidents: how AI protects dissent under repression - European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
Russia escalating repression to silence opposition to war in Ukraine, UN human rights expert says - PBS
When International Law Fails to Protect: Humanitarian Intervention and the Iranian Repression - Opinio Juris
Political Repression in Cuba Ahead of the 2023 Parliamentary Elections - ACLED
Putin using Russian Orthodox Church to repress religion, panel says - www.christiandaily.com
Edinburgh Fringe: These Plays Don’t Repress the Trauma, They Bring It to Life Onstage - The New York Times
Transnational repression: four Pakistani journalists in exile sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia - RSF.ORG
Finland’s Prime Minister Should Confront Repression in China Visit - Human Rights Watch
Offline and silenced: Africa’s quiet rise of internet repression - ISS Africa
Telenor faces lawsuit over claims it exposed Myanmar customers to junta repression - Reuters
‘Anti-Palestinian repression’: Legal experts document hundreds of UK cases - Al Jazeera
Europe’s blind spot: How transnational repression undermines democratic resilience - Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
Texas fracker turned escort says repression allowed business to flourish - The Guardian
How repression is born – and how to resist it | Javier Corrales and Daniel Altschuler - The Guardian
Financial repression past and future - blackrock.com
Iran: Human rights investigators alarmed by ‘surge in repression’ and spike in executions following Israeli airstrikes - UN News
A Graphic Novel About Rage and Repression in Montreal - The New Yorker
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'repress'
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Misspellings - Typos
reprrss,   repres,   reprwss,   reprss,   reoress,   rpress,   repreas,   reress,   reprress,   repres,   tepress,   represa,   rwpress,   reepress,   epress,   rerpess,   rrpress,   rrepress,   erpress,   repeess,   re[ress,   eepress,   repreess,   repess,   reprses,   reptess,   rperess,   represss,   reppress,   represd,   represss,   reperss,   repreds
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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