oppress

IPA: ʌprˈɛs

(transitive) To keep down by unjust force.
(transitive) To make sad or gloomy.
(transitive, obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
(transitive, obsolete) To sexually violate; to rape.

Examples of "oppress" in Sentences

To oppress is bad enough, but to love to do so is much worse.
Religion does not "oppress" women, it enforces antiquated gender roles.
The really big guys want to "oppress" and they will do everything in their power to do so!
It is said that the oppressor shall be depress though by people praised, and that the oppress is at rest though by people blamed.
Polite palaver takes unstinted hours, and the sauntering of the people through the street emphasizes the impression that no business calls oppress them.
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.
The majority of Muslims seem to believe that hostility to Christianity from Muslims is currently justified precisely because Christians and, especially, Jews "oppress" Muslims and "drive them from their homes."
The US originally avoided the use of tanks in Afghanistan precisely to avoid comparisons to the Soviet occupation, however last month it was announced that main battle tanks were being deployed to Helmand, although according to a US Colonel they won't be used to 'oppress' the Afghans.
Nothing of this kind your friends have done, because they are solemnly pledged to do nothing of this kind; because, to tolerate all religions, and to equalise civil rights to all sects, is to oppose some of the worst passions of our nature -- to plunder and to oppress is to gratify them all.