repress

/rɪˈprɛs/

意味: 抑える

例文: Aki repressed a laugh during the speech.
　　  アキはスピーチ中に笑いをこらえた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: repress emotions(感情を抑える), repress memories(記憶を抑える), repress a smile(笑顔を抑える)

定義: 抑える、抑圧する、感情や記憶を意識的に押し込めること。自分の中で何かを感じないようにしたり、表に出さないようにすること。

repressは約2,000,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Verb: put down by force or intimidation
Verb: conceal or hide
Verb: put out of one’s consciousness
Verb: block the action of

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The government tried to repress the protest quickly.(政府は抗議を迅速に抑えようとした。)
She had to repress her anger during the meeting.(彼女は会議中に怒りを抑えなければならなかった。)
Artists often repress emotions to create powerful work.(芸術家はしばしば感情を抑えて強い作品を作る。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
Verb: China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
Verb: The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
Verb: smother a yawn
Verb: muffle one’s anger
Verb: strangle a yawn

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): keep down, muffle, quash, reduce, repress, smother, stifle, strangle, subdue, subjugate, suppress

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, forget, oppress, suppress

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acetylate, adjust, alkalinize, americanize, ascend, assibilate, assimilate, assume, barbarize, boil, break, break into, brutalize, burke, calcify, capacitate, carbonate, caseate, catch, catch on, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, choke off, clinker, collapse, come, come in, come round, commute, complexify, concretize, conjugate, convert, cool, crack, crash, creolize, cure, damage, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deoxidize, desalinate, destabilize, develop, die, digest, dim, discolor, dissimilate, distill, dress, drift, drop, dry, dull, evaporate, fail, fall, fall for, felt, feminize, flip, flocculate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freshen, gel, gelatinize, give way, glaze, go out, gradate, grow, gum, harden, have, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, introject, ionize, isomerize, keratinize, leave, liberalize, lighten, make, mature, mellow, modernize, modify, mold, move, mutate, narrow, normalize, obsolesce, occult, opacify, oxidise, oxidize, pall, pass, plasticize, play out, prim, professionalize, promote, purify, recede, receive, recombine, reflate, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, reorient, repress, resume, reticulate, rise, roll, salinate, saponify, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shallow, shear, shift, silence, smoothen, smother, soften, solarize, spot, squelch, stabilize, stagnate, steepen, stiffen, stifle, stratify, strengthen, sublime, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, suppress, swing, synthesize, tighten, transaminate, transform, transpire, turn, turn on, ulcerate, undergo, undulate, unlearn, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrify, vulcanize, warm, warm up, wink

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): swallow

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: repression, repressive, smotherer, stifler, stifling, subduer, suppression

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): re

Suffixes(接尾辞): s

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書):

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative, sadness