OPPRESS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of oppress in English
oppress verb
(RULE )
oppress verb
(MAKE UNCOMFORTABLE )
(Definition of oppress from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
oppress | American Dictionary
oppress verb [T]
(MAKE UNCOMFORTABLE )
oppressively
It was oppressively hot on the bus .
(Definition of oppress from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
Examples of oppress
oppress
One handbill suggested that the people would happily accept a patriot king as long as they were not oppressed.
The pensions and mercenaries that oppressed the poor, and the corrupted young men, must be done away with.
We are not yet perfectly armed against dogmatism and the danger of oppressing scienti®c debate and criticism is still real.
We have every reason to believe that he may be delusional, oppressed with the kinds of ' voices' associated with what we now call schizophrenia.
The rest of the young men played the oppressed.
Perhaps the writer also overrates the potential for an 'antioppressive social work' which 'stands with the oppressed' (see p. 110).
The perspective is anthropological, and the goal is to improve practices that benefit people who are vulnerable or oppressed.
In his personality he combined old-fashioned traits of elitist, ar istocratic behavior with empathy for oppressed, economically disadvantaged people and willingness to help individuals.
They saw instead that racism was a dead-end street, and that oppressed races-including their own- would inevitably emerge from repression.
The wildness oppressed the sensibility yet made it impossible to move away.
If women were oppressed in the 1950s and 1960s, black women were much more so.
On one hand, women are worshipped, but on the other, they are oppressed.
Pitting oppressed groups against each other is counterproductive when the cure for oppression is to empower the people at the bottom.
Feminism means at a minimum an affirmation that women of all groups are oppressed and that this oppression is wrong.
Hence, where a group felt oppressed by a local headman, it could nominate and elect its own local leader to escape this oppression.
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Translations of oppress
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統治, 壓迫, 壓制…
in Chinese (Simplified)
统治, 压迫, 压制…
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baskı yapmak, zulmetmek, eziyet etmek…
utlačovat, tížit, trápit…
ciemiężyć, uciskać, dręczyć…
förtrycka, underkuva, trycka…
menindas, menyebabkan sso berasa tertekan…
угнетать, притеснять, действовать угнетающе…
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