oppress
uh pres
- v come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
The government oppresses political activists - v cause to suffer
- Now, with Medical Marijuana being prescribed for AIDS patients, they have added "fots" to the list of those they can joyously use the laws to oppress.
- Linney is appealing in a different way, as a woman subtly suggesting that she knows better than to act out of the social anxieties that oppress her, but having trouble fighting .
- And yet he has found a way to think kindly of those who oppress his people and vilify his name.