REPRESSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repressing mean? 

• REPRESSING (adjective)
  The adjective REPRESSING has 1 sense:

1. restrictive of action

  Familiarity information: REPRESSING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRESSING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restrictive of action

Synonyms:

inhibitory; repressing; repressive

Context example:

an overly strict and inhibitory discipline

Similar:

restrictive (serving to restrict)

 Context examples 

This soluble, nuclear protein may play a role in activating or repressing transcription by RNA polymerase II.

(Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase H3 Lysine-79 Specific, NCI Thesaurus)

IL-10 is a cytokine with potent anti-inflammatory properties, repressing the expression of inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha, IL-6 and IL-1 by activated macrophages.

(IL10 Anti-inflammatory Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Shc increases levels of intracellular reactive oxygen species, repressing the forkhead factor FKHRL1.

(Longevity Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This soluble, nuclear protein plays a role in repressing the expression of genes through SUMOylation of lysine 119 of histone H2A.

(E3 SUMO-Protein Ligase CBX4, NCI Thesaurus)

GDC-0199 mimics BH3-only proteins, the native ligands of Bcl-2 and apoptosis activators, by binding to the hydrophobic groove of Bcl-2 proteins thereby repressing Bcl-2 activity and restoring apoptotic processes in tumor cells.

(Bcl-2 Inhibitor GDC-0199, NCI Thesaurus)

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was no harassing restraint, no repressing of glee and vivacity with him; for with him I was at perfect ease, because I knew I suited him; all I said or did seemed either to console or revive him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

After wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every variety of thought—re-considering events, determining probabilities, and reconciling herself, as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so important, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at length return home; and she entered the house with the wish of appearing cheerful as usual, and the resolution of repressing such reflections as must make her unfit for conversation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)