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"


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