oppressor
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7.5
- noun
- /əˈprɛsər/
:
opresor
- Throughout history, countless individuals have risen up to challenge their oppressors and claim their rights.
- victims and oppressors
- confront oppressors
- colonial oppressors
Take away the audience and the oppressors will always collapse.
- Take away the audience and the oppressors will always collapse.
- Any human being either belongs to the oppressors or to the oppressed.
- What did you think breaking free of colonial oppressors chains looked like?
- The Queen of England was not an oppressor.
- History is not kind to the oppressors.
- So in that world where there's black and white, white bad, black good, one's the oppressor, one's the oppressed.
- They have, they have to hold on to Israel being the oppressor, the patriarchy, the colonizer, the bad guy.
- That's what got him crucified because they were expecting a a conqueror to overthrow their Roman oppressors.
- You, you just like you launch yourself headlong into a defense of the oppressed and vilifying the oppressor.
- That's how he emboldened the vanquished to stand up so the oppressed can never blame the oppressor.
Examples
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The "winner" becomes the oppressor, the new center of masculine power.
Academic text (1994) -
We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother...
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And people are thinking that white people are the oppressor or they have it better.
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What your oppressor will do is your oppressor will find any excuse to take the the pressure off of what we really talking about.
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Answer: Everyone plays a part, either as oppressor or as victim.
Academic text (1995) -
We joined them in becoming our own oppressor.
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Envy not thy oppressor and choose none of his ways.
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But her legacy lived on, inspiring others to stand up to their oppressors, speaking out, no matter what the cost.
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He was wounded fighting in battle against the Soviet oppressors.
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Their Latin American colleagues still approach the Hispanic world with colonial eyes: the oppressor versus the oppressed.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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5.3
A person who treats someone cruelly or violently, often over time
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5.8
A person in power who treats others cruelly and unfairly
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7.7
A ruler who has all power and treats people cruelly
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7.7
A person who causes very bad physical pain to punish or make someone talk
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7.9
A person who hurts someone on purpose, often again and again
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8.1
A person who repeatedly hits or hurts someone in their home
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7.1
A person who uses others selfishly to get money or power
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7.9
A person who treats others cruelly because of their race, religion, or beliefs over a long time
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8.3
A person who harms or tricks another person to control them
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7.4
A person who causes pain or distress to someone on purpose
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7.4
A person or thing that has control over others
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7.5
A person who forces others to work very hard and treats them badly
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9.9
A person who conquers people by force and makes them obey
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8.0
A person who uses force or authority to stop people, information and actions
A person who forces rules or duties on others without their permission
A person who hurts people or animals on purpose
A person who keeps criticizing someone very harshly, often in public
Antonyms
How Oppressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oppressor comes from Latin parts ob- ('against') and premere ('to press'), the same root as the English word press. So an oppressor is someone who 'presses down' on others, using power to treat people cruelly or unfairly.