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Definition of oppress:
- To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
- To produce a sensation of weight in ( some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.
- To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
- To ravish; to violate.
Synonyms:
outrage, take liberties with, vex, mash, wrong, hamper, jam, shell, strain, lie on, worry, bother, subdue, overload, burden with, aggrieve, go ill with, saddle, happy, break down, put upon, annoy, depress, trample, study at wrong, beat, squelch, sadden, hound, keep down, bear hard upon, stamp down, handicap, right, demolish, abuse, squeeze, maltreat, bottle up, press down, beat out, depress, smother, encumber, beat down, crush, persecute, squash, wrong, dishearten, ride roughshod over, plague, suppress, trounce, dispirit, deject, smash, keep under, dispirit, weigh down, harass.
- dominate (part of speech: verb)
- prohibit (part of speech: verb)
- oppose (part of speech: verb)
Usage examples:
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He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him."
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When relieved of the presence of his women- kind, who were apt either to oppress him, in the person of his wife, or to puzzle him, in the persons of his daughters, Lord Grosville was not by any means without value as a talker.