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Oppression

Oppression Meaning & Definition
Oppression Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Oppression?

[n] the act of subjugating by cruelty
[n] a feeling of being oppressed
[n] kept down by unjust use of force or authority; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Oppression: oppressiveness | subjugation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Oppression: abuse | affliction | airlessness | anguish | argumentum baculinum | bale | big stick | bitter cup | bitter draft | bitter draught | bitter pill | blank despondency | burden | burden of care | burdening | burthen | cankerworm of care | care | cargo | charge | charging | closeness | cross | crown of thorns | cumber | cumbrance | curse | deadweight | death wish | dejectedness | dejection | depression | despair | despondency | despondentness | despotism | discouragement | disheartenment | dispiritedness | distress | domination | domineering | down trip | downcastness | downer | downheartedness | drag | drooping spirits | encumbrance | enslavement | fascism | freight | gall | gall and wormwood | grievance | handicap | harassment | hardship | harrying | heartlessness | heavy hand | high hand | hopelessness | hounding | incubus | incumbency | infliction | injury | injustice | iron boot | iron hand | iron heel | lading | load | loading | low spirits | lowness | lowness of spirit | malaise | maltreatment | McCarthyism | millstone | oppressiveness | overload | overtaxing | overweighting | pack of troubles | pain | peck of troubles | persecution | pessimism | pressure | red-baiting | reign of terror | repression | saddling | Schmerz | sea of troubles | self-destructive urge | sinking heart | Slough of Despond | sorrow | spiritlessness | stuffiness | subjection | subjugation | suicidal despair | superincumbency | suppression | surcharge | taedium vitae | taxing | terrorism | thorn | thought control | torment | tormenting | torture | trouble | tyranny | victimization | waters of bitterness | weariness of life | weight | witch-hunt | witch-hunting | woe

See Also | depression | persecution | subjection | subjugation | weight

Oppression In Webster's Dictionary

\Op*pres"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. oppressio.] 1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. ``The multitude of oppressions.'' --Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense. --Milton. 4. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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