Oppress

What do we mean by oppress?

To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority. transitive verb

To cause to feel worried or depressed. transitive verb

To overwhelm or crush. transitive verb

To press against or upon.

To press unduly upon or against; overburden; weigh down, literally or figuratively: as, oppressed with care or anxiety; oppressed with fear.

To overpower or overcome; overbear or overwhelm; suppress; subdue.

To make languid; affect with lassitude: as, oppressed with the heat of the weather.

To sit or lie heavy on: as, excess of food oppresses the stomach.

To load or burden with cruel, unjust, or unreasonable impositions or restraints; treat with injustice or undue severity; wield authority over in a burdensome, harsh, or tyrannical manner; keep down by an unjust exercise of power.

To ravish. Chaucer.

To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. transitive verb

To ravish; to violate. transitive verb

To put down; to crush out; to suppress. transitive verb

To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body). transitive verb

Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush. verb

To keep down by force verb

To make sad or gloomy verb

Cause to suffer verb

Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority verb

To keep down by unjust force.

To make sad or gloomy.

Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

An academic euphemism for first world inequality of outcome; an exaggeration that by comparison minimizes actual suffering, bondage, torture, and totalitarian control. Urban Dictionary

1. Dominating harshly: Imposing a harsh or cruel form of domination. 2. Highly stressful: Exerting a worrying, troubling, or burdensome pressure on somebody. 3. Stifling: So hot and humid as to make people feel tired, irritable, or sluggish. Urban Dictionary

1. An extremely unbalanced system of power in which a group of people is being discriminated against; typically found in dictatorships such as Nazi Germany or North Korea. Examples of oppression include slavery in the United States, the Jewish genocide carried out by Adolf Hitler, and the treatment of every single person in Soviet Russia except for its leader. Oppression can have serious consequences, but, most importantly, it can lead to enormous suffering and immense loss of life. The truly disgusting things that oppression has lead to are to be learned from. Don’t live in the past, but learn from it. 2. Someone saying a mean word on the internet. Urban Dictionary

Synonym with a country having rich oil fields. If a country is rich in oil, then it is by default also oppressed and in need of liberation. Urban Dictionary

The unjust keeping down of others by force... in today's and past societies people were opressed by RACISM as well as violence. One of the main factors of oppresion is human nature and it's regulation...? Urban Dictionary

Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable, doesn't mean it has to change. Urban Dictionary

An act or instance of oppressing or subjecting to cruel or unjust impositions or restraints. Urban Dictionary

Adjective form of oppression Urban Dictionary

Noun: A guy/gal who recently got in a pretty bad state. The manner in which the guy got in such a state is often hilarious. Verb: The act of a person/organization which is the cause for the affected person being in such a state. The person/organization is usually unjust or does it as a joke. Used by some of the south Indians in Chennai, India. Urban Dictionary

Straight people Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to oppress:
oppress, appress.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word oppress:
taunt, intimidate, enjoyment, threaten, strangers, oppression, exploit, minorities, sunni, neighbor, feminist, minority, weak, subjects, exercise, fear, teach, citizens, poor, gender, women, citizen, destroy, democracy, our, egypt, anyone, evil, humans, argued, truth, nor, muslim, majority, jews, freedom, people, themselves, racial, expressed, ideas, others, god, laws.

Words that rhyme with oppress:
process, address, access, assess, press, express, s, stress, progress, success, nevertheless, recess, less, distress, acquiesce, dress, coalesce, egress, finesse, possess, guess, mess, suppress, excess, redress, nonetheless, abscess, impress, digress, bless, ness, esse, largesse, regress, profess, obsess, yes, cress, caress, confess, unless, transgress, chess, compress, es, depress, repress, abs, tress, ess, reassess, tess, fess, convalesce, jess, ls, dispossess, hess, hesse, les, aggress, ccs, bess, oas, undress, noblesse, watercress, gress, repossess, ts, headdress, ines, letterpress, cbs, attests, dss, ws, more or less, fesse, due process, ques, uss, inverness, overdress, wes, nes, cmos, fluoresce, winter cress, fress, lcs, evening dress, requests, name and address, work in progress, damsel in distress, in progress, outguess, bessemer process, bench press.

Adjectives that are often used to describe oppress:
shouldest, present, much, sore, strong, poor, more, most, vexatious, nigh, second, innocent, extreme.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective oppress:
women, others, people, trade, man, minorities, mankind, men, nations, individuals, members, industry, nature, widows, workers, corporations, individuality, groups, colonies, ion, blacks, debtors, france, woman, addicts, muslims, citizens, conscience, religion, folk, strangers, hundreds, christians, mother, reader, millions, peasants, memory, spirit, commerce.

Consonant match to oppress:
e press.

Words that sound like oppress:
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