Word Meanings - REPRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To press again.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPRESS)

• Allay
• soothe
• alleviate
• repress
• mitigate
• quiet
• moderate
• appease
• compose
• soften
• pacify
• mollify
• assuage
• tranquilize
• palliate
• culm
• Blunt
• To subdue
• discourage
• ossify
• numb
• harden
• Bury
• Inter
• inhume
• conceal
• suppress
• obliterate
• cancel
• entomb
• hush
• Check Curb
• restrain
• stop
• stay
• hinder
• impede
• inhibit
• cohibit
• bridle
• control
• obstruct
• Control
• curb
• guide
• regulate
• coerce
• manage
• administer
• govern

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REPRESS)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to REPRESS)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• INTERAMBULACRUM
  In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• INTERCENTRUM
  The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• INTERIM
  A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics. (more info) 1. The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• INTERHEMAL; INTERHAEMAL
  Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.
• INTERDUCE
  An intertie.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• INTERVENE
  A coming between; intervention; meeting. Sir H. Wotton.
• INTERNATIONAL
  1. Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations. 2. Of or concerning the association called the International. International code
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.