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The answer OPPRESS has 137 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of oppress in various dictionaries:
verb - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
verb - cause to suffer
To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny.
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keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority. |
Keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority. |
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority |
cause to suffer |
To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny. |
To weigh heavily on: Poverty oppresses the spirit. |
Obsolete To overwhelm or crush. |
to govern people in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom: |
to make a person feel uncomfortable or worried, and sometimes ill: |
to make a person feel uncomfortable or anxious: |
Oppress might refer to |
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Oppression can refer to an authoritarian regime controlling its citizens via state control of politics, the monetary system, media, and the military; denying people any meaningful human or civil rights; and terrorizing the populace through harsh, unjust punishment, and a hidden network of obsequious informants reporting to a vicious secret police force. * Oppression also refers to a less overtly malicious pattern of subjugation, although in many ways this social oppression represents a particularly insidious and ruthlessly effective form of manipulation and control. In this instance, the subordination and injustices do not afflict everyoneinstead it targets specific groups of people for restrictions, ridicule, and marginalization. No universally accepted term has yet emerged to describe this variety of oppression, although some scholars will parse the multiplicity of factors into a handful of categories, e.g., social (or sociocultural) oppression; institutional (or legal) oppression; an |