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. Drake Leung:

   Maybe 30 or 40 years ago there were actually more fishermen or farmers in Hong Kong. Now society has changed so much but they still retain this system, this framework to oppress the views of the people.

2. Jonar Nader:

   The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society.

3. Indian Stats:

   Train movement through lockdown has been suspended only to further harass and oppress the poor population.

4. Sarah Wentz:

   He can’t just use that as a defense, he wasn’t court appointed to oppress her or abuse her or torment her.

5. Frederick Douglass:

   Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

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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