Oppression

Noun

 * 1) The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
 * 2) The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
 * 3) A feeling of being oppressed.

Adjectives for Oppression
military; ruthless; discomfited; proud; ungrateful; ungracious; needless; odious; iron; long; indefinable; dismal; heavy; unbounded; subordinate; systematic; unremitting; super-inhuman.

Verbs for Oppression
bear—; chain to—; crumble under—; decry—; resist—; sacrifice to—; shake off—; slay by—; struggle with—; tyrannize wtih—; — chafes; —controls; —crushes; —destroys; — frustrates; —hushes; —masters; —ravages; —reigns ; —silences.

Related terms

 * oppress

Thesaurus
abuse, affliction, airlessness, anguish, argumentum baculinum, bale, big stick, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blank despondency, burden, burden of care, burdening, burthen, cankerworm of care, care, cargo, charge, charging, closeness, cross, crown of thorns, cumber, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, despotism, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, distress, domination, domineering, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drag, drooping spirits, encumbrance, enslavement, fascism, freight, gall, gall and wormwood, grievance, handicap, harassment, hardship, harrying, heartlessness, heavy hand, high hand, hopelessness, hounding, incubus, incumbency, infliction, injury, injustice, iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, lading, load, loading, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, maltreatment, millstone, oppressiveness, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack of troubles, pain, peck of troubles, persecution, pessimism, pressure, red-baiting, reign of terror, repression, saddling, sea of troubles, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, sorrow, spiritlessness, stuffiness, subjection, subjugation, suicidal despair, superincumbency, suppression, surcharge, taedium vitae, taxing, terrorism, thorn, thought control, torment, tormenting, torture, trouble, tyranny, victimization, waters of bitterness, weariness of life, weight, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, woe

Etymology
< oppression: <  oppression: <  oppressio: < opprimere:, past participle oppressus:; see oppress.

Translations

 * Arabic: ظلم
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 * French:
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 * Japanese: 圧迫, 圧制
 * Kurdish: چه‌وساندنه‌وه, زۆرداری
 * Russian: гнёт, угнетение, притеснение
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 * Dutch: bedruktheid


 * Kurdish: زۆرداری


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 * Kurdish: زۆرداری