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Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

Moderate :: Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind..

Repression :: Repression (n.) The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers..

Effervesce :: Effervesce (v. i.) To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment..

Suppression :: Suppression (n.) The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like..

Flaming :: Flaming (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue..

Overbearing :: Overbearing (a.) Overpowering; subduing; repressing.

Kuklux :: Kuklux (n.) The name adopted in the southern part of the United States by a secret political organization, active for several years after the close of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression of the political power of the freedmen; -- called also Kuklux Klan..

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb..

Repress :: Repress (n.) The act of repressing.

Irrepressibly :: Irrepressibly (adv.) In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb..

Repression :: Repression (n.) That which represses; check; restraint.

Check :: Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

Insuppressible :: Insuppressible (a.) That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.

Hush :: Hush (v. t.) To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

Repress :: Repress (v. t.) To press again.

Repress :: Repress (v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back..

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry..

Frown :: Frown (v. t.) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence..

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