Definitions for oppressions

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oppressions op·pres·sion

Spelling: [uh-presh-uh n]

IPA: /əˈprɛʃ ən/

Oppressions is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 464 anagrams from letters in oppressions (einoopprsss).

Definitions for oppressions

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

Origin of oppressions

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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