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Govern vs Repress - What's the difference?

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Govern is a related term of repress.


As verbs the difference between govern and repress

is that govern is to make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in while repress is to press again.

As a noun repress is

the act of repressing.

govern

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
  • To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
    • Govern yourselves like civilized people.
    a student who could not govern his impulses.
  • To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
    • Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
  • To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
    • a valve that governs fuel intake.
  • To exercise political authority; to run a government.
  • To have or exercise a determining influence.
  • To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

    • Related terms

    * government * governance * governor * governess

    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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