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🤐 To hold back feelings 🛑 To stop by force 🚫 To block activity 💿 To make new copies
to repress

to repress

1 7.3
Make more copies of an old record
  • verb
  • /rɪˈprɛs/
  • Jargon
translation icon : reeditar

Examples

  • Houston, that bang you heard was Fred Haise on the cabin repress valve.

    Apollo 13 (1995)

  • If the determination of "importance" allows us to designate the significance of a particular album or musician, what sorts of information does the designation also happen to repress?

    Blog text (2)

  • Correspondingly, Poussin is ignorant of his proper relationship with Gillette; Porbus has repressed his model, and Frenhofer has a model, Gillette, whom he refuses to recognize.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The record label decided to repress the popular album due to high demand from fans.

  • After realizing how much the old tracks were still loved, the producers chose to repress the vinyl edition.

  • Due to the album's overwhelming success, they had to repress it to meet the expectations of the listeners.

Surface Forms

repress infinitive
repressed past
repressed past participle
repressing present participle
represses third person singular

Morphology

repress = press (transparent) = re + press

In this production sense, repress means simply 'press again' or 'make another pressing', which follows a regular and easily understood pattern.

Etymology

Repress comes from the parts re- (which can mean 'back' or 'again') and press 'to push'. In music and printing, to repress a record is to 'press' it again for a new run, which is why it means making another set of physical copies.