Definition of Repressible

1. a. Capable of being repressed.

Definition of Repressible

1. Adjective. Capable of being repressed, of being controlled, of being suppressed or limited. ¹

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Definition of Repressible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repressible

representatively
representativeness
representatives
represented
representer
representers
representing
representment
represents
repress
repressed
represser
repressers
represses
repressibility
repressible (current term)
repressible enzyme
repressilator
repressilators
repressing
repression
repression-sensitization
repressionist
repressions
repressive
repressively
repressiveness
repressor
repressor gene
repressor protein

Literary usage of Repressible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monthly Abstract of Medical Science (1877)
"(3) repressible stage: this stage is attained gradually after a mean duration of five or six weeks, sometimes less, very often longer. ..."

2. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"thought it would conciliate you, I would repress it, if it were repressible by any human effort. I will do nothing that you ask. ..."

3. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"Nad. Acad. Sci. USA, 46:682-90. 1961 With HL Ennis. Control of arginine biosynthesis in strains of Escherichia coli not repressible by arginine. J. Mol. ..."

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