Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming, Burdensome or difficult to bear, Tyrannical or exercising unjust power, grievous, Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands, Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law, marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights", Weighing heavily on the spirit, Unreasonably burdensome or severe, If you describe the weather or the atmosphere in a room as oppressive, you mean that it is unpleasantly hot and damp. The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out = stifling, If you describe a society, its laws, or customs as oppressive, you think they treat people cruelly and unfairly. The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace. refugees from the oppressive regime. = repressive, Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe, depressing; of depression; of oppression, An oppressive situation makes you feel depressed and uncomfortable. the oppressive sadness that weighed upon him like a physical pain, weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows", weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows, – Causing discomfort; hard to put up with, Regimes A company will receive a half square if it scores up to five points, and a whole square if it scores six or more under the following system, To make sad or gloomy, To keep down by force, Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush, come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists", To oppress people means to treat them cruelly, or to prevent them from having the same opportunities, freedom, and benefits as others. These people often are oppressed by the governments of the countries they find themselves in We are not normal like everybody else. If we were they wouldn't be oppressing us, repress; suppress; tyrannize, If something oppresses you, it makes you feel depressed, anxious, and uncomfortable. It was not just the weather which oppressed her, To ravish; to violate, cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union", To put down; to crush out; to suppress, To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty, come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists, 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, In an oppressive manner, burdensomely, persecutingly; tyrannically, despotically, in a heavy and oppressive way; "it was oppressively hot in the office, in a heavy and oppressive way; "it was oppressively hot in the office", The characteristic of being oppressive, a feeling of being oppressed, suppression; tyranny, despotism; dictatorship; distressfulness, burdensomeness, onerousness, weightiness, unwelcome burdensome difficulty,
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Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming - "will the oppressive heat of this summer weather never end?"
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Burdensome or difficult to bear - "the oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company"
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Tyrannical or exercising unjust power - "the oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers"
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grievous
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Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands
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Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law
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marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
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Weighing heavily on the spirit
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Unreasonably burdensome or severe
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If you describe the weather or the atmosphere in a room as oppressive, you mean that it is unpleasantly hot and damp. The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out = stifling
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If you describe a society, its laws, or customs as oppressive, you think they treat people cruelly and unfairly. The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace. refugees from the oppressive regime. = repressive
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Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe
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depressing; of depression; of oppression sıfat
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An oppressive situation makes you feel depressed and uncomfortable. the oppressive sadness that weighed upon him like a physical pain
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weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"
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weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows
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– Causing discomfort; hard to put up with
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Regimes A company will receive a half square if it scores up to five points, and a whole square if it scores six or more under the following system
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To make sad or gloomy - "We were oppressed by the constant grey skies."
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To keep down by force - "The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners."
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Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush - "Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse, / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse."
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come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
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To oppress people means to treat them cruelly, or to prevent them from having the same opportunities, freedom, and benefits as others. These people often are oppressed by the governments of the countries they find themselves in We are not normal like everybody else. If we were they wouldn't be oppressing us
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repress; suppress; tyrannize fiil
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If something oppresses you, it makes you feel depressed, anxious, and uncomfortable. It was not just the weather which oppressed her
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To ravish; to violate
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cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
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To put down; to crush out; to suppress
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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty
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come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists
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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
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