1 a check; restrain; keep under; quell. b suppress; prevent from sounding, rioting, or bursting out.
2 Psychol. actively exclude (an unwelcome thought) from conscious awareness.
3 (usu. as repressed adj.) subject (a person) to the suppression of his or her thoughts or impulses.
Derivatives:
represser n. repressible adj. repression n. repressive adj. repressively adv. repressiveness n. repressor n.
Etymology: ME f. L reprimere (as RE-, premere PRESS(1))
Useful english dictionary. 2012.