0 present participle of oppress
1 to govern people in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom:
2 to make a person feel uncomfortable or worried, and sometimes ill:
Strange dreams and nightmares oppressed him.
Even today women are suffering and brothers are oppressing, even if less than they did before 1954.
He felt the imposition of geometric ordering schemes as a deadening force, oppressing other kinds of ordering such as might arise from use or context.
This violence seems endemic to the human spirit, and is not an exclusive feature of one or another oppressing culture.
How can a tyrant's success in subjecting a population to his rule by force of arms give him the right to consent on behalf of those he is oppressing?
Petitions from the populace had long served the ruling order by facilitating the sultan's control of intermediaries who fleeced the treasury or damaged cultivation by oppressing the population.
It is also persecuting and oppressing individuals active in cyberspace, invoking undemocratic articles of the criminal code for the purpose.
We do not just cancel debt for any old dictatorship that is oppressing its poor.
That is the oppressing preoccupation of educational administration at the present time.
