Thesaurus: oppression

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1. n. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
2. n. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
3. n. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
4. n. Ravishment; rape.
5. n. the act of subjugating by cruelty
6. n. the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
7. n. a feeling of being oppressed
8. 1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense. Milton. 4. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Chaucer.
9. n:100 n. the act of subjugating by cruelty n. the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted" n. a feeling of being oppressed