Synonyms of the word

repress

• v. To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
• v. Hence, to check; to keep back.
• v. To press again.
• n. A record pressed again; a repressing.

bury

• v. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
• v. (transitive) To place in the ground.
• v. (transitive, often figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
• n. (obsolete) A burrow.
• n. A borough; a manor.

conquer

• v. To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
• v. To overcome an abstract obstacle.
• v. To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
• v. To acquire by force of arms, win in war.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

forget

• v. (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
• v. (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
• v. (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
• v. (intransitive) To cease remembering.
• v. (slang) euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).

inhibit

• v. to hinder; to restrain.

muffle

• n. Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
• n. A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
• n. (slang, archaic) A boxing glove.
• n. A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace).
• n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often…
• v. (transitive) To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
• v. (transitive) To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
• v. (transitive, dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold;…

oppress

• v. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
• v. (transitive) To keep down by force.
• v. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.

quash

• v. To defeat forcibly.
• v. To crush or dash to pieces.
• v. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

smother

• v. (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or…
• v. (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
• v. (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle;…
• v. (transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish.
• v. (transitive) To daub or smear.
• v. (intransitive) To be suffocated.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping,…
• v. (intransitive) Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
• v. (intransitive) Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled;…
• v. (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
• v. (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When…
• n. That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly.

stifle

• n. A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
• n. (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt or cut off.
• v. (transitive) To repress, keep in or hold back.
• v. (transitive) To smother or suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To feel smothered etc.
• v. (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
• v. (transitive) To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

strangle

• v. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate…
• v. (transitive) To stifle or suppress an action.
• v. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
• v. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

subdue

• v. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
• v. To bring (a country) under control by force.

subjugate

• v. To forcibly impose obedience or servitude.

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.