repress
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When very hot, the number-one recommendation is to say indoors “which if you experience homelessness is not an option,” Repress said.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2022
Oh, you whose nature is so formed Each thought refined to know, Repress the word, the glance, that wakes That trembling nerve to woe!
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
Repress the wish, yet thou mayst hear She shed for thee a pitying tear, For thine are paths of gloom.”
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Repress that power, keep it back, and you get nothing.
From Glen of the High North by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)
Repress, rē-pres′, v.t. to press a second time.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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The Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
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