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| Oppress |  To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. |
v. t. |
| Oppress | To ravish; to violate. |
v. t. |
| Oppress | To put down; to crush out; to suppress. |
v. t. |
| Oppress | To produce a sensation of weight in [some part of the body]; as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach. |
v. t. |
| Oppressed | of Oppress | imp. & p. p. |
| Oppressing | of Oppress | p. pr. & vb. n. |
| Oppression | The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. |
n. |
| Oppression | That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. |
n. |
| Oppression | A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. |
n. |
| Oppression | Ravishment; rape. |
n. |
| Oppressive | Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. |
a. |
| Oppressive | Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. |
a. |
| Oppressive | Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe. |
a. |
| Oppressor | One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. |
n. |
| Oppressure | Oppression. | n. |
| Inoppressive | Not oppressive or burdensome. | a. |