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Nonresistance :: Nonresistance (n.) The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition..

Rod :: Rod (n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression..

Surfeit :: Surfeit (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking..

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..

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed..

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) Ravishment; rape.

Squeezing :: Squeezing (n.) The act of pressing; compression; oppression.

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..

Low :: Low (adv.) In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice..

Aggrievance :: Aggrievance (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs..

Tribune :: Tribune (n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls..

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

Sweat :: Sweat (v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers..

Angor :: Angor (n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression..

Anxiety :: Anxiety (n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium..

Heaviness :: Heaviness (n.) The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

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