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Princeton's WordNet

  1. laden, oppressedadjective

    burdened psychologically or mentally

    "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"

GCIDE

  1. oppressedadjective

    having excessive or unfair burdens imposed.

Wiktionary

  1. oppressedadjective

    Subject to oppression.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of oppressed in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of oppressed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of oppressed in a Sentence

  1. Malcolm X:

    Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

  2. Henry Clay:

    An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

  3. The President:

    When people are oppressed and human rights are denied, particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines, when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism.

  4. Shoshanna Ehrlich:

    I'm outraged by the idea that straight people need a pride parade, we are not an oppressed majority by an stretch of the imagination. This is full of hate and offensive.

  5. Malai Nampa:

    I didn’t get it then, why he had to sacrifice so much. But now I want to tell him I understand, i’ve learned that if you don’t fight back against these people, you will only be oppressed.

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