All 4 Uses

repress
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Anna Karenina
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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.†
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Definitions:

(1) (repress as in: she repressed a laugh)
to hold something back (not allow it to be expressed)
(2) (repress as in: repressed the rebellion)
to forcefully subdue or prevent actions by others
(3) (repress as in: repressed the memory)
suppress from conscious awareness a memory, thought, feeling or desire
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)