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Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

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..

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

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

Tame :: Tame (a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth..

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

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

Represser :: Represser (n.) One who, or that which, represses..

Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Blunt :: Blunt (v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings..

Stop :: Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction..

Repressive :: Repressive (a.) Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures..

Repressible :: Repressible (a.) Capable of being repressed.

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

Smother :: Smother (v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure..

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

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

Repress :: Repress (v. t.) To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent..

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

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