oppress
Significado (Inglés)
- To keep down by unjust force.
- To make sad or gloomy.
- (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
- (obsolete) To sexually violate; to rape.
Conceptos
agrupar apretadamente
ejercer presión
Sinónimos
treat badly
treat cruelly
press down
trample down
strech
weigh heavy
treat with contempt
treat unjustly
be cruel
depotize
treat with harshness
accuse falsely
do violence to
harrass
press hard
press together
take by force
trample upon
treat roughly
tyrannize over
be a burden
take advantage of someone weaker
coerce and bully
press hard upon
press heavily
weigh upon
hold in bondage
mal-treat
dead milling
drive on
load down
overbear
press upon
Frecuencia
Con guión como
op‧press
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/əˈpɹɛs/
Etimología (Inglés)
From Middle English oppressen, from Old French oppresser, from Medieval Latin oppressare (“to press against, oppress”), frequentative of Latin opprimere, past participle oppressus (“to press against, press together, oppress”), from ob (“against”) + premere, past participle pressus (“to press”); see press.
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