Usually means: Release inhibition of gene expression.
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  1. derepress: Merriam-Webster
  2. derepress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derepress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derepress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. derepress: Wiktionary
  6. derepress: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. derepress: Dictionary.com
  8. derepress: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. derepress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. derepress: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. derepress: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (derepress)

▸ verb:  (genetics) To activate a gene by the removal of a repressor
▸ verb:  (psychiatry) To cease to repress (a belief, memory, etc.).

Similar:
transrepress, reexpress, retroregulate, retropose, recodonise, retrotranscribe, retrotranspose, reop, reconjugate, recombineer, more...

Opposite:
repress, suppress, inhibit

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Similar:
transrepress, reexpress, retroregulate, retropose, recodonise, retrotranscribe, retrotranspose, reop, reconjugate, recombineer, more...

Opposite:
repress, suppress, inhibit



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