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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. oppress

   To oppress means to keep someone down through unjust use of authority, force, or power. It involves subjecting a particular individual, group or class to harsh and unjust treatment, often infringing upon their personal rights and freedoms. This can occur at a socio-political level or within interpersonal dynamics, and can involve physical, mental, or emotional abuse and control.

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. Fisher Ames:

   ...[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

2. Joel Kim Booster:

   There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people.

3. George Mason:

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

4. Saba Farzan:

   The world community with leadership by the Obama administration has thrown human rights under the Persian rug -- literally. Democracy promotion has been sacrificed for the sake of talking endlessly to those who oppress Iranians terribly.

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. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=OPPRESS