Oppress Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-prĕs
To make sad or gloomy
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. deject
  2. depress
  3. dispirit
  4. sadden
  5. weigh down
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. oppression
  2. tyranny

Words Related to Oppress

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Oppress Sentence Examples

  • The nobles were exhorted not to oppress the commons.

  • And yet in Gideon's time they were strong enough to oppress Israel.

  • During the first year of her reign she made known that she was "resolved not to follow the example of her predecessor in making use of a few of her subjects to oppress the rest.

  • The first and most famous of these rulers was Gabriel Bethlen (q.v.), who reigned from 1613 to 1629, perpetually thwarted all the efforts of the emperor to oppress or circumvent his Hungarian subjects, and won some reputation abroad by adroitly pretending to champion the Protestant cause.

  • The Germans were thereby deprived of their weapon of obstruction, and the Czechs lost the power of misusing their majority to oppress the Germans.

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