Contact and joining
Synonyms for repress
The synonym for repress recorded in this bank is stifle, in the sense "suppress in order to conceal or hide". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for repress
- stifleverb, in the sense "suppress in order to conceal or hide"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for repress.
suppress in order to conceal or hide
Repress a cry of fear.
The true synonym
stifle
Same sentence, swapped: Stifle a cry of fear.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for repress in the sentence quoted.
- subjugate
- oppose
- intercept
Where repress turns up in the game
repress is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where repress is the trap
- obstructverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is block, in the sense "block passage through", and repress is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play repress
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so repress reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from contact and joining at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. repress carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.