Definition of "represses" [represses]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repress. (verb)

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• "As a chain of paper birds flocks over the sleeping child, the mother brushes a strand of hair from her forehead, represses the lump in her throat, and kisses her child lightly."
• "Yoani is an extraordinary woman who has repeatedly overcome great obstacles and risked serious consequences to make her voice heard, as she struggles against a dictatorship that systematically represses freedom of expression."
• "Or is it because he represses who he is when he writes, and his books and stories and essays are not really an outgrowth of who he is at all, but shallow work to move readers and separate them from their book-buying dollars?"