oppression
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5.5
- noun
- /əˈprɛʃən/
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opresión
- I have spent my entire life fighting oppression.
- political oppression
- social oppression
- systemic oppression
We're embodied beings, and resisting oppression begins with the body.
- We're embodied beings, and resisting oppression begins with the body.
- Now I just oppose oppression in all its forms.
- Because there's always been systemic and legalized oppression in this country.
- And so there's this like toggling between order via oppression and chaos.
- And so it's how a lot of systems of oppression work.
- And it will, there will be no more oppression and no more hatred, only love.
- But it is a, it is the worst kind of almost horrible oppression and gender apartheid.
- You you are participating in a form of oppression.
- This theory seems to be blaming Jewish people for their own oppression.
- Like whenever, whenever marginalized people want to fight back against their oppression and their oppressors.
- It was hard to see the blatant oppression and the word said.
- So, well, that's just oppression and slavery. It's like, no, it's not.
Examples
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Do you accept the freedom and power that God gives you to resist evil, injustice, and oppression, in whatever form they present themselves?
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I have seen the oppression of My people in Egypt... and have heard their cry.
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Now I just oppose oppression in all its forms.
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But no matter how long the night of oppression, the morning of liberty will breakthrough.
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Both in the oppression they faced and in their survival.
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The novel engages in complex ways with the traumas of state oppression, ethnic violence, and civil war.
Academic text (2008) -
They became the guardian of the Chinese people... struggling against injustice and oppression.
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Because there's always been systemic and legalized oppression in this country.
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Themes of sexual repression and patriarchal oppression dominate the first part of the novel.
Academic text (1990) -
The U.N. says, for years, the Rohingya have suffered from oppression due to institutionalized discrimination.
Synonyms
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6.7
One person or a small group rules a country cruelly
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6.5
Cruel, unfair treatment of people because of their race, religion, or beliefs
45
7.2
A condition where people are kept under control by force and cannot speak or act freely
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4.0
Hurting or being unfair to people and animals
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6.8
Treating someone unfairly, often by taking advantage of them
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8.4
The act of forcing people or groups to obey
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9.6
A government where one person or group has all power and rules cruelly
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
A competition where people claim they suffer more unfair treatment
How Oppressive
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6.7
- Formal
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9.6
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5.5
97
6.5
45
7.2
- Offensive
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3.5
197
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oppression comes from an old Latin word meaning 'to press down', the same root as press and pressure, and it came to mean using power to keep people down. That's why political oppression is when cruel or unfair rulers 'press down' on people's lives and freedoms.