oppress

Definizione monolingua

oppress

oppress (third-person singular simple present oppresses, present participle oppressing, simple past and past participle oppressed)

1. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:

     Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse, / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.

2. (transitive) To keep down by force

   The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.

3. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy

   We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.

Definizione dizionario oppress

	opprimere
	keep down by force

premere

serrare

stringere

accelerare

angariare

caricare

compattare

comprimere

deprìmere

frenare

insistere

legare

perseguire

perseguitare

reprimere

ritenere

schiacciare

sopprimere

soverchiare

Altri significati:

(transitive) To keep down by force

(obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

to make sad or gloomy

(transitive) To make sad or gloomy