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oppressed

[uh-prest]

adjective

  1. burdened with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subjected to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power.

    He's spent over three years documenting the lives of poor, exploited, and oppressed peoples in Latin America.

  2. weighed down by thoughts or feelings that lie heavily on the mind or spirit.

    The fix for a hurt heart, broken spirit, or oppressed mind is not always easy, but there is a path to recovery.



noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. Usually the oppressed oppressed people collectively.

    We cannot proclaim individual liberty and at the same time show no solidarity with the oppressed.

verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of oppress.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • unoppressed adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of oppressed1

First recorded in 1350–1400; oppress ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )
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Some visitors who were making hand signs said they were expressing their disapproval of a regime that, they’d been taught, oppressed Vietnamese people.

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But all share a view that men are the oppressed ones in our society, supposedly denied their ability to bro out and be their full manly selves.

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This challenges one of Kim's biggest fabrications: that those in the South are poor and miserably oppressed.

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What is your reaction to how the Trump administration has remade the Office of Civil Rights to focus on protecting the supposedly trampled-upon rights of White right-wing Christians and "oppressed" white people more broadly?

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She belonged to a family of grass cutters from the Pulaya community, part of the Dalits, who are at the bottom of India's harsh caste hierarchy and have been historically oppressed.

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