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Common collocations with repress in American Collocation

repress verb transitive

US /rɪˈpres/

anger
desire
emotion
feeling
memory
thought
urge

He tried to repress his feelings of impatience.

brutally
ruthlessly
savagely
violently

The police and army brutally repressed local people for over ten hours.