oppressed

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Subject to oppression
Simple past tense and past participle of oppress
People who are oppressed are treated cruelly or are prevented from having the same opportunities, freedom, and benefits as others. Before they took power, they felt oppressed by the white English speakers who controlled things The oppressed are people who are oppressed. a sense of community with the poor and oppressed
{s} depressed; suppressed, subdued
past of oppress
burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"
laden
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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.

oppress
{v} to injure, crush by hardship, subdue
being oppressed
under harsh government; being overburdened
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To keep down by force
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To put down; to crush out; to suppress
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cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
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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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come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists
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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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{f} repress; suppress; tyrannize
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To ravish; to violate
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To make sad or gloomy
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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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come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty
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