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Meaning oppress meaning

What does oppress mean?
Definitions in simple English

oppress Verb

— To oppress is to stifle or prevent something. — To oppress is to deny someone's freedom.

oppress

— verb come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority The government oppresses political activists — verb (= persecute) cause to suffer Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union

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oppress English » English

persecute press suppress keep down repress tyrannize torment squeeze ill-treat harass depress maltreat domineer crush ill-use bully afflict worry trample subjugate stifle pinch overpower despise coerce wrong weigh down trouble treat cruelly treat badly trample down tighten subdue squelch squash pressure press down plague overwhelm overrun injure hold down force disturb distress demoralize confine wind up weigh heavy vex

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Conjugation oppress conjugation

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Examples oppress examples

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Simple sentences

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
The law won't let anyone oppress people.

Movie subtitles

They oppress and suck the people dry.
As to Martians, our heavier air would oppress them.
Using my strength to oppress others.
I will lead the poor to a land of abundance where no one will oppress them.
The wise man does not oppress others with his superiority.
Because you, without blame, can oppress her with your presence, I, brutally, want you to leave my land!
They oppress me.
I never used force to oppress the weak.
Don't you oppress me.
Don't you oppress me, mate!
You oppress me.
I hate those who oppress us on behalf of their foreign masters.
We're being taxed out of our asses. to pay for a monopoly on guns by people to oppress us already.
So that Louis the Gouty could be winkled out of his exile's trough in England to oppress his people again.
The Emperor asked me to tell you that we didn't come to Algeria to oppress or plunder, but to bring you the blessings of civilization.
Freedom? Or the right for the strong to oppress the weak!
I hate people. They oppress me.
They are more inclined by nature, to oppress.
No human may oppress another.
How Yuen is helping them to oppress the villagers.
The bankers may oppress, but the people will prevail.
This hymn, these solemn, mournful prayers oppress the air with terror!
I won't allow anymore that the powerful oppress the weak. The rich take advantage of the poor.
I watch the night through the window, and despite the walls that oppress my heart, it still beats with the furthest star.
So we, my friend. So it could, my friend, oppress our legs, my friend, our veins. Obstruct our bloodstream, and then, my friend.
You can't oppress everyone anymore!
But with the mobile oppression palace. A few dignitaries can oppress your entire planet for pennies a day!
But with the mobile oppression palace a few dignitaries can oppress your entire planet for pennies a day!
The law was created to protect the people, not to discriminate and oppress them!
On the other hand, we came to these places not to oppress But to bring some 'of our being Of our way of life, of our culture Of our democracy and our.
For example, if the standards enforced by the ILO were made general, would that be good or bad? Or would that merely oppress the Africans even more?

News and current affairs

Even with Saddam deposed, what is to prevent a successor regime from using oil power to oppress Iraq's people?

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