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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That night came Aunt Ellen, gentle, sentimental, wrinkled, sighing, oppressed by wealth, in to Brother Anthony at his evening paper, and began discourse on the subject of lovers’ woes.
Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.
Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her.
A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.
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