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Reprise vs Repress - What's the difference?

reprise | repress |

As nouns the difference between reprise and repress

is that reprise is a recurrence or resumption of an action while repress is the act of repressing.

As verbs the difference between reprise and repress

is that reprise is to take (something) up or on again while repress is to press again.

reprise

English

Noun

(wikipedia reprise) (en noun)
  • A recurrence or resumption of an action.
  • (music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
  • (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
  • A taking by way of retaliation.
    • (Dryden)
  • (legal, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
    • (Burrill)
  • A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

    • Verb

    (repris)
  • (obsolete) To take (something) up or on again.
  • * , II.xi:
    • How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize .
  • To repeat or resume an action
  • (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

    • See also

    * reprisal

    Anagrams

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    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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