Associations to the word «Oppressed»

Wiktionary

OPPRESS, verb. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
OPPRESS, verb. (transitive) To keep down by force
OPPRESS, verb. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy

Dictionary definition

OPPRESS, verb. Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists".
OPPRESS, verb. Cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne