Repress
Antonyms of REPRESS
- whip, encourage, assist, impel, allow, set free, disperse, back, foment, incite, cultivate, stir, animate, express, yield, forward, instigate, emancipate, permit, provoke, excite, aid, start, unleash, advance, liberate, loose, prop up, support, let loose, take out, further, help, vent, let go, release, arouse, free, scatter, surrender.
Examples of usage:
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So I tried to repress such thoughts; but now I will resist them no longer. "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers" by Georg Ebers
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As I looked upon her face again, it seemed even more ghastly than before; and I could hardly repress a shudder. "The Allen House or Twenty Years Ago and Now" by T. S. Arthur
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Barely was Ambrose able to repress another groan. "The Loves of Ambrose" by Margaret Vandercook
