oppress
/əˈpɹɛs/ verb B1- To keep down by unjust force. · The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
- To make sad or gloomy. · We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.
Plural oppress · He/she/it oppresses · Past oppressed · Past participle oppressed · -ing form oppressing
Verb forms
- Base form
- oppress
- He/she/it
- oppresses
- Past
- oppressed
- Past participle
- oppressed
- -ing form
- oppressing
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“The truth is,” replied Dantès, “that I am too happy for noisy mirth; if that is what you meant by your observation, my worthy friend, you are right; joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”
A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.
THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below.
I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.
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