Dictionary Entry
oppress
oppress is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
- 2transitive verb
To ravish; to violate.
- 3transitive verb
To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5verb
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
"The government oppresses political activists"
- 6verb
cause to suffer
"Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
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