Definition of oppress

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

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Incubus :: Incubus (n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right..
Relief :: Relief (n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress..
Surfeit :: Surfeit (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets..
Oppressing :: Oppressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oppres.
Oppression :: Oppression (n.) Ravishment; rape.
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor..
Tyrant :: Tyrant (n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor..
Oppress :: Oppress (v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
Oppress :: Oppress (v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty..
Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
Overbulk :: Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..
Throng :: Throng (v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings..
Solano :: Solano () A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain..
Exclaim :: Exclaim (v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; The field is won! he exclaimed..
Surfeit :: Surfeit (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking..
Press :: Press (v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.
Onerous :: Onerous (a.) Burdensome; oppressive.
Toil :: Toil (v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body..
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