A burden of servitude or oppression; something considered to be restrictive or oppressive; subjugation, bondage. Also: something which imposes or…

Humiliation, abasement; condemnation; diminishment.

The condition of being politically enslaved or subjugated; subjection (typically of a nation or its people) to a foreign power or to oppressive rule…

figurative. Straitened or repressed condition, under the operation of trouble, tyranny, or the like.