repress

verb

1. (transitive)To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

   “to repress rebellion or sedition”

   “to repress the first risings of discontent”

2. (broadly, transitive)To check; to keep back.

   “Deſire of wine and all delicious drinks […] Thou couldſt repreſs,”

3. To press again.

   “to repress a vinyl record”

   “It had been a fraught car journey. From it my abiding memory is Charlie Troy having a deep but short-lived relationship with a smoking cigarette, rummaging after in the depthless depth of a shiny black handbag for a forbidden lipstick, finding it, applying it in Heaney’s mirror with a magician’s dexterity that defied the inconsistencies of the road, pressing, unpressing, and repressing her lips until the look came to her satisfaction and the bow was drawn.”

noun

1. A record pressed again; a repressing.

   “Save for the shows he actually taped — Dylan, Springsteen, Page & Plant and other kindred spirits — his own titles by 1994 were just represses of hard-to-find Japanese or American titles.”