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Circumscribe vs Repress - What's the difference?

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Repress is a synonym of circumscribe.



As verbs the difference between circumscribe and repress

is that circumscribe is to draw a line around; to encircle while repress is to press again.

As a noun repress is

the act of repressing.

circumscribe

English

Verb

(circumscrib)
  • To draw a line around; to encircle.
  • To limit narrowly; to restrict.
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    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
  • (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

    • Derived terms

    * circumscription

    Related terms

    * -scribe

    repress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The act of repressing.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To press again.
    • to repress a vinyl record
  • To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
  • *to repress sedition or rebellion
  • *to repress the first risings of discontent.
  • Hence, to check; to keep back.
  • * Milton
    • Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, / Thou couldst repress .

    Synonyms

    * (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing) to crush out; to quell; to subdue; to suppress * (to keep back) to restrain; to hold back

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