oppress

[Op*press·]

When you oppress someone, you use your authority to keep them down. If you oppress people long enough, they might decide to fight back and then decide to oppress YOU.

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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

Verb
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one''s authority; "The government oppresses political activists"

Verb
cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

v. t.
To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

v. t.
To ravish; to violate.

v. t.
To put down; to crush out; to suppress.

v. t.
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.

Oppress

Op*press" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Oppressed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Oppressing.] [F. oppresser, LL. oppressare, fr. L. oppressus, p. p. of opprimere; ob (see Ob-) + premere to press. See Press.] 1. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. Wyclif.

For thee, oppress'8ad king, am I cast down.

Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen !

2. To ravish; to violate. [Obs.] Chaucer. 3. To put down; to crush out; to suppress. [Obs.]

The mutiny he there hastes to oppress.

4. 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.

To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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Usage Examples

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.

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Other Usage Examples

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.