réprimer
French, verb/ʁe.pʁi.me/
réprimer is spelled R-É-P-R-I-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réprimer is a French verb meaning “to suppress, quell (stop the spread of something considered bad or wrong)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Empêcher quelque chose de se développer”.
What does réprimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suppress, quell (stop the spread of something considered bad or wrong)
- 2
to repress, stifle (prevent the growth of)
- 3
to repress, muffle (prevent someone speaking out)
- 4
to hold back, to stunt (make someone refrain from doing something)
- 5
to cut down, subdue (reduce the level of, e.g. crime)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Primer à nouveau.
verb: 1. Empêcher quelque chose de se développer. 2. Calmer ce que l'on considère comme un mal. 3. Contenir, dépasser un sentiment.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of réprimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réprimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réprimé participle past
- réprime first-person indicative present
- réprimes indicative present second-person
- réprimons first-person indicative plural
- réprimez indicative plural present
- répriment indicative plural present
- réprimais first-person imperfect indicative
- réprimait imperfect indicative singular
- réprimions first-person imperfect indicative
- réprimiez imperfect indicative plural
- réprimaient imperfect indicative plural
- réprimai first-person historic indicative
- réprimas historic indicative past
- réprima historic indicative past
- réprimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réprimer?
- /ʁe.pʁi.me/
- \ʁə.pʁi.me\
- \ʁe.pʁi.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to réprimer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réprimer in French?
réprimer appears 2.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).