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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Right :: Right (a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate..
Angor :: Angor (n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression..
Aggrievance :: Aggrievance (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
Ease :: Ease (n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind..
Sweatily :: Sweater (n.) An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
Grate :: Grate (v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity..
Swelter :: Swelter (v. t.) To oppress with heat.
Throng :: Throng (v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings..
Awful :: Awful (a.) Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene..
Squeeze :: Squeeze (v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush..
Pressive :: Pressive (a.) Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation..
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence..
Harrow :: Harrow (v. t.) To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
Overgo :: Overgo (v. t.) To oppress; to weigh down.
Oppression :: Oppression (n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed..
Extortionate :: Extortionate (a.) Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
Under :: Under (prep.) Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the
Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Task :: Task (v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
Burden :: Burden (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive..
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