Definitions for oppresses

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oppresses op·press

Spelling: [uh-pres]

IPA: /əˈprɛs/

Oppresses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in oppresses (eeopprsss).

Definitions for oppresses

verb (used with object)

1. to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power:
2. to lie heavily upon (the mind, a person, etc.):
3. to weigh down, as sleep or weariness does.
4. Archaic. to put down; subdue or suppress.
5. Archaic. to press upon or against; crush.

Origin of oppresses

1300-50; Middle English oppressen Middle French oppresser Medieval Latin oppressāre, derivative of Latin oppressus past participle of opprimere to squeeze, suffocate, equivalent to op-

Examples for oppresses

You can only oppress a community for so long before they will fight with toothpicks against machine guns.

And do they not make use of your own generosity to oppress you?

The code he learned was to obey the strong and to oppress the weak.

Sure, as Sotomayor wrote, “democratically approved legislation can oppress minority groups.”

Few will be heartened by the fact that the debt will oppress race-neutrally.

How you oppress me, my dearest friend, with your politeness!

Hamas claims to be fighting for freedom while invoking laws that oppress women and religious minorities.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

Instead, it was proof the government is out to oppress them.

But I will not oppress you, my dearest friend, with further reflections of this sort.