Definition of Oppress

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Oppress

To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

To ravish; to violate.

To put down; to crush out; to suppress.

To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.

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Oppress Quotations

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel Johnson

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
Warren Farrell

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
Mary Astell

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
Charles Rangel

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.
Comte de Lautreamont

Oppress Translations

oppress in Afrikaans is druk
oppress in Danish is trykke
oppress in Dutch is drukken, dringen, persen, knellen
oppress in Finnish is puristaa
oppress in French is accabler, serrer
oppress in Latin is praegravo, onero, conculco
oppress in Spanish is deprimir, apretar

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