Synonyms:
repress, quash, keep_down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
Meaning: put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
Usage examples
Tad could scarce repress a yell.
The merchant bowed gravely, perhaps to cover the trace of a smile he was unable to repress.
"Well, doctor," said Knight, unable to repress a note of triumph in his voice, "have you seen?"
There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
The father seemed to repress his feelings, but his fixed eye, contracted brow, and deeply-furrowed face showed the struggle that was passing within.
Athos started, passed his hand over his brow to remove the drops of perspiration that burst forth, and rose in his turn with a nervous movement he could not repress.
The liberty of discourse must therefore be destroyed as well as the liberty of the press; this is the necessary term of your efforts; but if your object was to repress the abuses of liberty, they have brought you to the feet of a despot.
"He talks about some hymn," she went on again, "some cross he has to bear, some duty; I remember Ivan Fyodorovitch told me a great deal about it, and if you knew how he talked!" Katya cried suddenly, with feeling she could not repress, "if you knew how he loved that wretched man at the moment he told me, and how he hated him, perhaps, at the same moment.