<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.)</li><li>to keep down or suppress (anything objectionable)</li><li>to put down or quell (sedition, disorder, etc.)</li><li>to reduce (persons) to subjection</li><li>Psychology, Psychoanalysis: to reject (painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses) from the conscious mind</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to initiate or undergo repression</li></ul>