repress

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpɹɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprimō (“I repress”).

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
   • to repress sedition or rebellion
   • to repress the first risings of discontent.
2. Hence, to check; to keep back.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, […] / Thou couldst repress.

• (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing): to crush; to quell; to subdue; to suppress
• (to keep back): to restrain; to hold back

re- +‎ press

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. To press again.

   to repress a vinyl record

repress (plural represses)

1. A record pressed again; a repressing.
   • 2010, Clinton Heylin, Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry

     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.

• Presser, presser