(v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
(v. t.) To ravish; to violate.
(v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(3) But some warn that oppression of the minority is heading towards breaking point.
(4) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(5) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
(6) But there are very oppressed people here and I have to stay with them.
(7) Ukip accuses Theresa May of condoning these “symbols of the oppression of women”.
(8) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
(9) He added that the producers were also seeking to educate a new generation about the system of apartheid through which South Africa's white minority oppressed the black majority for more than 40 years up to 1990.
(10) "This false notion of choice, which is increasingly used to justify the oppression of women," says Ellis.
(11) The study of 106 pregnant women engaged in microbiological synthesis production revealed the tendency to increasing genitalia contamination by Candida yeast-like fungi, including fungi-protein producers, and also oppression of immunologic reactivity in comparison with nonpregnant women and the control group.
(12) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
(13) A 46-year-old woman occasionally experienced palpitation of short duration and chest oppression since 1977.
(14) "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
(15) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
(16) Choosing the example of prisoners' voting rights, which the ECHR has ordered the UK to implement, the supreme court justice observed that the issue "has nothing to do with the oppression of vulnerable minorities".
(17) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
(18) A 62 year old man, who had underlying diseases of pneumoconiosis and hypertensive heart disease, visited Chikuho Rosai Hospital complaining of chest oppression and general fatigue on Feb. 7, 1987.
(19) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
(20) He is sexism, male domination, and oppression against women personified.
Oppressor
Definition:
(n.) One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(2) It is simply absurd to declare that Latvians who wish to honour their compatriots who fought and died in the second world war have any sympathy for the abhorrent ideologies that were responsible for the death of so many of my people and that plunged my nation into decades of occupation by Nazi and Soviet oppressors.
(3) It was about us and not about our former oppressors.
(4) Details of this rapidly developing international incident remain contested, with the oppressors (the young ladies) telling a slightly different tale to that being spun by the victim (Fifa).
(5) Voice-hearing can be a way of trying to ward off an oppressor’s voice from completely taking over one’s subjectivity – a way to try to insert a minimal space between addresser and addressee, an attempted solution.
(6) You can't balance the violence of the oppressor with the violence of the oppressed.
(7) In academia, speakers at Bath University, surely the most malign higher education institution in Britain, call ex-Muslims “native informants ”, as if the decision of free men and women to decide for themselves what they should believe is the equivalent of collaborating with a colonial oppressor.
(8) It is my right, and my responsibility as a free person, to protest against oppression and oppressors.” She was detained on the spot.
(9) The British army, sent in as "peacekeepers", turned out to be even greater oppressors.
(10) But, in their feminine naivety, they fail to realise that their comeuppance is on its way, their freedoms snatched by the invasion of the genuine oppressor.
(11) He believed he had taken the part of woman in our marriage, and seemed to expect me to defend him against myself, the male oppressor.
(12) Oh God, deal with the usurpers and oppressors and tyrannical Jews.
(13) But the enterprising Pulgasari swallows the missile and shoots it back at his oppressors.
(14) The crucial bit in the film is when he realises his oppressors are more afraid of him than he is of them."
(15) There’s NGO Monitor, which critiques both international and local humanitarian groups for presenting a skewed picture of Israelis as the perpetual oppressor and Palestinians as the victims, and the Israel Project, which “fights to get the truth out about Israel”.
(16) Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a brutal televised tournament where randomly selected teens, referred to as "tributes", are whisked away to battle to the death for the enjoyment of their oppressors.
(17) Contrary to popular romanticised notions, different subjugated groups rarely stand together against oppressors, for the obvious and often justified reason that they fear being dragged down by one another.
(18) Not since Tony Blair single-handedly liberated Kosovo from the Serb oppressor (with secondary back-up from Nato and the US air force) has a British prime minister been able to claim plaudits as a successful war leader.
(19) Black women (and I'm using black as a political term to denote shared and continued experiences of racism and colonisation) are not all (and only) oppressed and black men are not all oppressors.
(20) But while the two attorneys used their legal know-how to promote their political ends, the failure of conventional campaigning to stop the removal of the black population of the Johannesburg suburb of Sophiatown in February 1955 convinced Mandela that the ANC had no alternative but to take up armed resistance: "A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.