oppress'd

Verb

oppress (third-person singular simple present oppresses, present participle oppressing, simple past and past participle oppressed)

1. (transitive) To keep down by unjust force.
   • The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.

   Synonyms:

   suppress, entrap

2. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.
   • We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.

   Synonyms:

   begloom, get down, aggrieve, attrist, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on

3. (obsolete, transitive) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   depress, downbear, squash

4. (obsolete, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.

   Synonyms:

   outrage, violate, vitiate, abuse, constuprate, defile, defoul, dishonour, force, misuse

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