repress
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
put down by force or intimidation
The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
Types & categories
- crush hypernym
Related & opposite
- repression derivation
- subduer derivation
- repression derivation
- inhibitory derivation
Sense 2 verb
conceal or hide
smother a yawn
Types & categories
- suppress hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
put out of one's consciousness
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- inhibition derivation
- psychiatry domain topic
Sense 4 verb
block the action of
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | repression |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subduer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | repression |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhibitory |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | crush |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crushing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stifler |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | suppress |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhibition |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | psychiatry |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | forget |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | swallow |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |