meaning of oppress
1. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
2. To ravish; to violate.
3. To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
4. To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.
5. come down on or keep down by unjust use of ones authority; "The government oppresses political
">activists"
Related Words
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