Definitions for oppression

oppression op·pres·sion

Spelling: [uh-presh-uh n]
IPA: /əˈprɛʃ ən/

Oppression is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in oppression (einoopprss).

Definitions for oppression

noun

  1. the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
  2. an act or instance of oppressing or subjecting to cruel or unjust impositions or restraints.
  3. the state of being oppressed.
  4. the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.

Origin of oppression

1300-50; Middle English oppressioun Middle French Latin oppressiōn- (stem of oppressiō) a pressing down, equivalent to oppress(us) (see oppress) + -iōn- Examples for oppression

Dovlatov hated Soviet oppression and battled repression subtly, by not condescending to notice it, and keeping things light.

Jundullah and Jaish ul Adl sprang up “in reaction to that kind of oppression,” he said.

His self-mastery is the gift of his creator, and oppression, only, can take it away.

The demon of oppression had hidden her head ashamed, and fled to her den!

The fact that Godolphin was slain, it must be confessed, was not in itself the source of his oppression.

But for many Muslim women, religion is seen as a source of liberation rather than a source of oppression.

Dovlatov was a merciless opponent of oppression, whose chief weapon was one dictatorships are rarely good at facing: humor.

Some sense of oppression, of impending evil, hung over them both.

The world was full of oppression, and envy, and drunkenness, and vain pleasures.

If anything, every new religion emerged at least in part as a protest against violence and oppression.

Word Value for oppression
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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