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Disburden :: Disburden (v. t.) To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.

Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe..

Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands..

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..

Sultry :: Sultry (superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts..

Pressive :: Pressive (a.) Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation..

Nonresistant :: Nonresistant (n.) One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force..

Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law..

Sum :: Sultry (superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air..

Cumber :: Cumber (v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble..

Ease :: Ease (n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.

High-handed :: High-handed (a.) Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act..

Screw :: Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.

Sirocco :: Sirocco (n.) An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily..

Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc..

Onerous :: Onerous (a.) Burdensome; oppressive.

Inoppressive :: Inoppressive (a.) Not oppressive or burdensome.

Tyrannize :: Tyrannize (v. i.) To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices..

Gripingly :: Gripingly (adv.) In a griping or oppressive manner.

Incubus :: Incubus (n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.

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