All 4 Uses of
repress
in
Anna Karenina
- And besides," she said hurriedly, with difficulty repressing a smile, "it's really time to be in bed."†
Part 2
- Anna suddenly interrupted him with an irritation she could not succeed in repressing.†
Part 4
- "But it seems it was the will of God," he added, and as he said it felt how foolish a remark it was, and with difficulty repressed a smile at his own foolishness.†
Part 4
- She blushed with emotion when he came into the room, she could not repress a smile of rapture when he said anything amiable to her.†
Part 5 *
Definition:
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(repress) to hold something back
or:
to subjugate (oppress or hold others down)