英语词汇“oppress”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

oppress

/əˈprɛs

verb [with object]

1Keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority: a system which oppressed working people...

So when I rail against the corporate capitalist system that oppresses workers, I'm speaking from my own experience.
It argues that the modern world fosters institutions and ideas that exploit and oppress people and degrade and destroy the environment.
He has oppressed our people and caused great hardship for too long.

Synonyms

persecute, abuse, maltreat, ill-treat, treat harshly, be brutal to, be cruel to, tyrannize, crush, repress, suppress, subjugate, hegemonize, subdue, subject, enslave;

scourge, exploit, hold down, keep down, grind down, rule with a rod of iron, rule with an iron hand, trample on, trample underfoot, bring someone to their knees, ride roughshod over

informal walk all over

persecuted, downtrodden, abused, maltreated, ill-treated, tyrannized, subjugated, repressed, subdued, crushed, enslaved, exploited, victimized, misused;

disadvantaged, underprivileged, ground down, browbeaten

1.1Cause distress or anxiety to: he was oppressed by some secret worry...

I've gotten over being oppressed by it though and will carry on.
On the way, London's ancient, massive buildings, black statues and dirt surround me, oppress and burden me.
Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.

Synonyms

depress, make gloomy/despondent, weigh down, lie heavy on, weigh heavily on, cast down, dampen someone's spirits, hang over, prey on, burden, crush, dispirit, dishearten, discourage, sadden, make desolate, get down, bring down, trouble, afflict

archaic deject

2 Heraldry another term for debruise.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French oppresser, from medieval Latin oppressare, from Latin oppress- 'pressed against', from the verb opprimere.

单词	oppress
释义	oppress /əˈprɛs / verb [with object] 1Keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority: a system which oppressed working people... So when I rail against the corporate capitalist system that oppresses workers, I'm speaking from my own experience. It argues that the modern world fosters institutions and ideas that exploit and oppress people and degrade and destroy the environment. He has oppressed our people and caused great hardship for too long. Synonyms persecute, abuse, maltreat, ill-treat, treat harshly, be brutal to, be cruel to, tyrannize, crush, repress, suppress, subjugate, hegemonize, subdue, subject, enslave; scourge, exploit, hold down, keep down, grind down, rule with a rod of iron, rule with an iron hand, trample on, trample underfoot, bring someone to their knees, ride roughshod over informal walk all over persecuted, downtrodden, abused, maltreated, ill-treated, tyrannized, subjugated, repressed, subdued, crushed, enslaved, exploited, victimized, misused; disadvantaged, underprivileged, ground down, browbeaten 1.1Cause distress or anxiety to: he was oppressed by some secret worry... I've gotten over being oppressed by it though and will carry on. On the way, London's ancient, massive buildings, black statues and dirt surround me, oppress and burden me. Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description. Synonyms depress, make gloomy/despondent, weigh down, lie heavy on, weigh heavily on, cast down, dampen someone's spirits, hang over, prey on, burden, crush, dispirit, dishearten, discourage, sadden, make desolate, get down, bring down, trouble, afflict archaic deject 2 Heraldry another term for debruise. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French oppresser, from medieval Latin oppressare, from Latin oppress- 'pressed against', from the verb opprimere. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes
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