different between repress vs comeuppance

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprim? (“I repress”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

2. (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.

Synonyms

• (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing): to crush; to quell; to subdue; to suppress
• (to keep back): to restrain; to hold back

Related terms

• repression
• repressive

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? press

Verb

repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)

1. To press again.

   to repress a vinyl record

Noun

repress (plural represses)

1. A record pressed again; a repressing.

Anagrams

• Presser, presser

English

Alternative forms

• come-uppance
• comeupance

Etymology

From come up (“to appear before a judge”) +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m??p?ns/

Noun

comeuppance (usually uncountable, plural comeuppances)

1. Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.
   • 1883, Albion Winegar Tourgée, ed., The Continent; an illustrated weekly magazine, v 3.

     So when Brown's second wife turned out a reg'lar ternygrunt, I wa'n't in no wise upset, for he needed a comeuppance, an' he got it in her.

   • 1958, “Yankee Comeuppance in a Lousy Inning”, in Life, v 45, n 15 (October 13), p 34.

     The Yankees got their comeuppance in Milwaukee when the Braves piled up a record score for the first inning of a World Series game.

   • 2004, Peter Hunt, Sheila G. Bannister Ray, eds., International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, p 862.

     […] in the anonymous A New Gift for Children (1750), perhaps America's first secular storybook, and its tales of children who are good and merit rewards, and tales of children who are otherwise and receive their comeuppances.

Synonyms

• (outcome that is justly deserved): just deserts

Translations

See also

• serve someone right

References

• comeuppance at OneLook Dictionary Search