Definitionv. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
Last update: September 25, 2015
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The poor have always been oppressed. [verb]
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We know of many countries around the world which still oppress their people and deny them their rights. [verb]
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Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye? [verb]
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On the present occasion, the aged warrior whose privilege it was to speak, was silent, seemingly oppressed with the magnitude of his subject. [verb]
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Dark forebodings of every kind oppressed her soul. [verb]
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She had lost her joyous activity, her eyes were often wet with tears, and she moved with drooping head as if some heavy care oppressed her. [verb]
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The anxiety and dread that oppressed her heart would kill her. [verb]
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Their souls were oppressed by anxiety concerning the fate of the Queen and their native city. [verb]
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There is the same division of oppressors and oppressed, but their view of the significance and dignity of their respective positions is no longer what it once was. [verb]
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All his senses even to the organs of respiration, were occupied by objects far removed from daily life, objects that thrilled and almost oppressed him. [verb]
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So that whether governmental violence is suppressed or not, the position of good men, in being oppressed by the wicked, will be unchanged. [verb]
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