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v. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny.

v. To weigh heavily on: Poverty oppresses the spirit.

v. Obsolete To overwhelm or crush.

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

v. To keep down by force

v. To make sad or gloomy

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

v. To ravish; to violate.

v. To put down; to crush out; to suppress.

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

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.

v. cause to suffer

v. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

"Tell him that it's been a way for some people to control other people if he knows the word oppress, I'd say oppress -- a way for some people to oppress other people."

oppressed    oppresses    oppressing   

oppression   

subjugate    repress    subdue    keep down    quash    reduce   

ravish    violate    suppress    burden    overburden    overweigh    crush    nightmare    bowl    swelter   

Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness   

depress    unhappy    degrade    sick    unable    ashamed    anxious    dissatisfied    impoverish    dejected