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a.
Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
n.
A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
n.
That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
n.
Oppression.
v. i.
To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.
a.
Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.
a.
Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
imp. & p. p.
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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.
n.
The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
n.
One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
v.
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.
v. t.
To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.
v. t.
To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.
n.
Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.
prep.
Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.
a.
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
a.
Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.
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