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Repetitive
- adjective - characterized by repetition; "repetitive movement"
- repetitive and persistent; "the bluejay's insistent cry"
Rephrasing
- verb - changing a particular word or phrase
- express the same message in different words
Replanting
- verb - plant again or anew; "They replanted the land"; "He replanted the seedlings"
Repointing
- verb - repair the joints of bricks; "point a chimney"
Repositing
- verb - depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing"
- put (something) in a place for storage; "the treasure found int he ancient tomb was reposited in the museum"
Reposition
- noun - change place or direction; "Shift one's position"
- depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing"
- place into another position
Repressing
- verb - block the action of
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
- put out of one's consciousness
- restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"
Repression
- noun - (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects"
- the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
Repressive
- adjective - restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"
Reprieving
- verb - postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
- relieve temporarily