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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Oppress \Op*press"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Oppressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Oppressing}.] [F. oppresser, LL. oppressare, fr. L. oppressus, p. p. of opprimere; ob (see {Ob-}) + premere to press. See {Press}.]
1. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. --Wyclif.
For thee, oppress['e]d king, am I cast down. --Shak.
Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen! --Milton.
2. To ravish; to violate. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. To put down; to crush out; to suppress. [Obs.]
The mutiny he there hastes to oppress. --Shak.
4. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
oppressed \oppressed\ adjective having excessive or unfair burdens imposed.
Syn: downtrodden, persecuted. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
oppressed
adjective: burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure" [syn: {laden}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "oppressed": abused, bond, browbeaten, burdened, captive, charged, cumbered, disenfranchised, downtrod, downtrodden, encumbered, enslaved, enthralled, fraught, freighted, ground down, hampered, heavy, heavyhearted, henpecked, in bondage, in bonds, in captivity, in chains, in leading strings, in slavery, in subjection, laden, laden with sorrow, loaded, long-faced, misused, ordered around, overborne, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, regimented, sad, sad of heart, sad-eyed, sad-faced, saddened, saddled, sadhearted, servile, slavish, subjected, subjugated, submissive, suppressed, taxed, trampled, tyrannized, under the heel, under the lash, unfree, unmanned, weighed upon, weighted, weighted down
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