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oppression
[ uh-presh-uhn ]
noun
- the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
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- an act or instance of oppressing or subjecting to cruel or unjust impositions or restraints.
- the state of being oppressed.
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- the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.
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oppression
/ əˈɛʃə /
noun
- the act of subjugating by cruelty, force, etc or the state of being subjugated in this way
- the condition of being afflicted or tormented
- the condition of having something lying heavily on one's mind, imagination, etc
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDzo·sDz noun
- o·sDz noun
- -DZ·sDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of oppression1
Example Sentences
“When you’ve got a Black family in Los Angeles in the 1960s and it has nothing to do with civil rights, it has nothing to do with oppression.”
A way to turn a people into a population too weakened to resist oppression.
"The biggest victory is a broken globalist media that finds itself too frayed to cover our assault on the institutions of America's oppression."
In March the UK lifted asset freezes on 24 Syrian bodies previously used by the Assad regime to fund the oppression of civilians, including the Central Bank of Syria, Syrian Arab Airlines and energy companies.
His position has led some observers to suggest that Francis was sympathetic towards Catholic liberation theology, which emerged in Latin America and calls for liberating the poor from political and economic oppression.
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