All 3 Uses of
repress
in
Bleak House
- She is repressing symptoms favourable to the fit when she seems to take alarm at something and vanishes down the stairs.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- To say of a man so severely and strictly self-repressed that he is triumphant would be to do him as great an injustice as to suppose him troubled with love or sentiment or any romantic weakness.†
Chpt 40-42
- The ironmaster, repressing his amused smile, assents.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(repress) to hold something back
or:
to subjugate (oppress or hold others down)