Definitions for OPPRESS
əˈprɛsop·press

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. oppress, suppress, crushverb

   come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

   "The government oppresses political activists"

2. persecute, oppressverb

   cause to suffer

   "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. oppressverb

   Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

2. oppressverb

   To keep down by force

   The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.

3. oppressverb

   To make sad or gloomy

   We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.

4. Etymology: From oppressen, from oppresser, from oppressare, frequentive of opprimere, past participle oppressus, from ob + premere, past participle pressus; see press.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To OPPRESSverb

   Etymology: oppressus, Lat.

   1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity.

   Israel and Judah were oppressed together, and all that took them captives held them fast, they refused to let them go. Jer. l. 33.

   Alas! a mortal most opprest of those
   Whom fate has loaded with a weight of woes. Alexander Pope.

   2. To overpower; to subdue.

   We’re not ourselves,
   When nature, being opprest, commands the mind
   To suffer with the body. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   In blazing height of noon,
   The sun oppress’d, is plung’d in thickest gloom. James Thomson.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Oppress

   o-pres′, v.t. to press against or upon: to use severely: to burden: to lie heavy upon: to constrain: to overpower: to treat unjustly: to load with heavy burdens.—n. Oppress′ion, act of oppressing or treating unjustly or harshly: severity: cruelty: state of being oppressed: misery: hardship: injustice: dullness of spirits: (Shak.) pressure.—adj. Oppress′ive, tending to oppress: overburdensome: treating with severity or injustice: heavy: overpowering: difficult to bear.—adv. Oppress′ively.—ns. Oppress′iveness; Oppress′or, one who oppresses. [Fr.,—L. opprimĕre, oppressum—ob, against, premĕre, to press.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of OPPRESS in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of OPPRESS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of OPPRESS in a Sentence

1. Zhao Lijian:

   I think the U.S. cares nothing about human rights, it is only using this as a pretext to oppress Chinese companies, destabilize Xinjiang and slander China's Xinjiang policy.

2. Edmund Burke:

   In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

3. Vanna Bonta:

   Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

4. George Mason:

   Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

5. Probarb:

   COVID-19 pandemic is just a drama and no such virus exists as Corona. It is history's biggest fooling propaganda done to harass and oppress common people.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=OPPRESS
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oppress
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=OPPRESS
4. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=OPPRESS