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oppressest

oppressest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of oppress.

Meaning of oppress

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.
  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.

See all 5 meanings of oppress

Origin of oppressest

oppress + -est

Questions about oppressest

What is oppressest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Oppressest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of oppress.

Words near oppressest in the dictionary

  1. oppressed
  2. oppressedst
  3. oppressee
  4. oppressees
  5. oppresses
  6. oppressest
  7. oppresseth
  8. oppressible
  9. oppressing
  10. oppressingly
  11. oppression

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