DEREPRESS

Etymology

Verb

derepress (third-person singular simple present derepresses, present participle derepressing, simple past and past participle derepressed)

(genetics) To activate a gene by the removal of a repressor

(psychiatry) To cease to repress (a belief, memory, etc.).

Anagrams

• repressed, respersed

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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