transitive. To occupy; to oppress or repress.

transitive. To press heavily upon, oppress.

transitive. To overwhelm, overpower, crush by force (a person, military force, etc.); to press heavily upon, oppress. Obsolete.

transitive. To beset, oppress.

transitive. With adverbial complement, as to tread down, under foot, in the mire, to the ground, to pieces, etc.; to tread to death, to kill by…

transitive. To press hard; to oppress, beset, besiege. Also figurative. Obsolete.

To trample down or crush (figuratively); to oppress; to outrage, maltreat, abuse.

transitive. To keep (a person or group of people, esp. a minority or other subordinate group) in subjection and hardship by the unjust exercise of…

transitive. To oppress; to burden severely; to afflict. Frequently in passive. Now rare.

transitive. To overpower by superior force; to press hard, beat back. Obsolete.

transitive. To oppress, tyrannize; (also) to humiliate, bully.

transitive. To oppress; to overcome, vanquish. Also in passive: to be hard-pressed in battle; to be beset. Cf. overlay, v. 4a. Obsolete.

transitive. To oppress, harass, distress, afflict; to repress. Obsolete.

transitive. To oppress.

figurative. In same sense: to grind the faces (occasionally face) of. (A Hebraism.)

transitive. Of a tyrant, adverse circumstances, etc.: to oppress; to crush, reduce to distress or misery; to load or burden with impositions or…

transitive. To press down, crush; to overthrow; to bring to ruin.

transitive. To treat arrogantly or oppressively.

transitive. figurative. To crush, to oppress; to treat with contemptuous cruelty.

to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone: to get the mastery over another and treat him with harshness or severity, to grind…

transitive. To rule or govern tyrannically; to treat tyrannically, play the tyrant to or over. (Cf. 1b) Now rare.

To distress or afflict (a person) by exaction, severity, etc.; to oppress, keep down.

transitive. To press down on (a person or thing) (literal and figurative); (in later use) esp. to keep (a person or group) in a position of…

to oppress.

transitive. To strip of leaves; = defoliate, v.

transitive. To treat harshly, oppress, harass.

figurative. To oppress with harshness or rigour.

figurative. To crush, to oppress; to harass with exactions. Also with down, to the dust. Cf. sense 1c.

transitive. figurative. To oppress, ‘crush’. Obsolete.

intransitive with on, upon, over. figurative. To treat with contempt; to violate the claims or rights of; to domineer or tyrannize over; †to encroach…