reprimere-repress: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is reprimere?reprimere is repress

What is repress?

  • Contenere, frenare: r. un grido di dolore r. le lacrime.
    Contain, brake: r. a cry of pain r. tears.
  • Soffocare con la forza: r. un tumulto ║ Sopprimere con mezzi legislativi, giudiziari e punitivi: lo stato cerca di r. la delinquenza.
    Suffocating by force: r. an uproar : Suppress by legislative, judicial and punitive means: the state seeks to re. delinquency.