All 5 Uses of
repress
in
Great Expectations
- They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn.†
Chpt 11
- "Very easily said!" remarked Camilla, amiably repressing a sob, while a hitch came into her upper lip, and her tears overflowed.†
Chpt 11 *
- But I can compare the effect of it, when on, to nothing but the probable effect of rouge upon the dead; so awful was the manner in which everything in him that it was most desirable to repress, started through that thin layer of pretence, and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head.†
Chpt 40
- It was the slightest start that could escape a man, the most carefully repressed and the sooner checked, but he did start, though he made it a part of the action of taking out his pocket-handkerchief.†
Chpt 51
- His breathing became more difficult and painful as the night drew on, and often he could not repress a groan.†
Chpt 54
Definition:
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(repress) to hold something back
or:
to subjugate (oppress or hold others down)