Dictionary Entry
oppression
oppression is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
- 2noun
That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
- 3noun
A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
- 4noun
Ravishment; rape.
- 5noun
the act of subjugating by cruelty
"the tyrant's oppression of the people"
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- 6noun
a feeling of being oppressed
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- 7noun
the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted"
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