repress

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
repress/rɪˈpres/

▶verb

• 1 subdue by force.

• 2 restrain, prevent, or inhibit.

  ■ suppress (a thought, feeling, or desire) in oneself so that it becomes or remains unconscious.

• 3 Biology prevent the transcription of (a gene).

– derivatives
represser noun,
repressible adjective,
repression noun.

– origin ME: from L. repress-, reprimere ‘press back, check’.