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repress
English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprim? (“I repress”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???p??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Verb
repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
Synonyms
- (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing): to crush; to quell; to subdue; to suppress
- (to keep back): to restrain; to hold back
Related terms
- repression
- repressive
Translations
Etymology 2
re- +? press
Verb
repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
- To press again.
- to repress a vinyl record
Noun
repress (plural represses)
- A record pressed again; a repressing.
Anagrams
- Presser, presser
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disguise
English
Etymology
From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d?z??a?z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d??ska?z/
- Hyphenation: dis?guise
- Rhymes: -a?z
Noun
disguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
- (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
- The act of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
- (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- guise
- mask
- pretense
Translations
Verb
disguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)
- (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- cloak
- mask
- hide
Derived terms
- disguisedly
- disguisement
- disguiser
Translations
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