OPPRESS

oppress

Verb

  1. Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
  2. To keep down by force
    The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
  3. To make sad or gloomy
    We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.


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