oppress
IPA: ʌprˈɛs
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "oppress" in Sentences
- The new leader was oppressive.
- Many people suffered from oppression.
- The prospects of the future oppressed him heavily.
- Conditions within the city are oppressive and harsh.
- Even the kings are shudras and oppress the brahmanas.
- Be the enemy of oppressor and supporters of oppressed.
- Such behaviour is cowardly and oppressive in the extreme.
- This was the climate of oppression of the left at that time.
- It was as though the oppression of the interregnum never happened.
- The condition of the oppressed and deprived was no longer the same.
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