Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to oppress
Participle: oppressed
Gerund: oppressing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | oppress |
| you | oppress |
| he;she;it | oppresses |
| we | oppress |
| you | oppress |
| they | oppress |
Perfect
| I | have oppressed |
| you | have oppressed |
| he;she;it | has oppressed |
| we | have oppressed |
| you | have oppressed |
| they | have oppressed |
Past
| I | oppressed |
| you | oppressed |
| he;she;it | oppressed |
| we | oppressed |
| you | oppressed |
| they | oppressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had oppressed |
| you | had oppressed |
| he;she;it | had oppressed |
| we | had oppressed |
| you | had oppressed |
| they | had oppressed |
Future
| I | will oppress |
| you | will oppress |
| he;she;it | will oppress |
| we | will oppress |
| you | will oppress |
| they | will oppress |
Future Perfect
| I | will have oppressed |
| you | will have oppressed |
| he;she;it | will have oppressed |
| we | will have oppressed |
| you | will have oppressed |
| they | will have oppressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | oppress |
| you | oppress |
| he;she;it | oppress |
| we | oppress |
| you | oppress |
| they | oppress |
Perfect
| I | have oppressed |
| you | have oppressed |
| he;she;it | have oppressed |
| we | have oppressed |
| you | have oppressed |
| they | have oppressed |
Imperfect
| I | oppressed |
| you | oppressed |
| he;she;it | oppressed |
| we | oppressed |
| you | oppressed |
| they | oppressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had oppressed |
| you | had oppressed |
| he;she;it | had oppressed |
| we | had oppressed |
| you | had oppressed |
| they | had oppressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would oppress |
| you | would oppress |
| he;she;it | would oppress |
| we | would oppress |
| you | would oppress |
| they | would oppress |
Perfect
| I | would have oppressed |
| you | would have oppressed |
| he;she;it | would have oppressed |
| we | would have oppressed |
| you | would have oppressed |
| they | would have oppressed |
Imperative
| you | oppress |
| we | Let's oppress |
| you | oppress |
Verbs conjugated like 'oppress'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'oppress'
appress,
adpress,
compress,
depress,
empress,
express,
hotpress,
impress,
outpress,
press,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- burden
- tax, trouble, depress, plague, load, overload, encumber, saddle
- abuse
- maltreat, persecute, wrong
- crush
- trample, overpower, smother, overwhelm, subdue, suppress
- annoy
- harass, worry, strain, bother, hamper, hound, vex, hinder
Antonyms
- burden
- ease, alleviation, mitigation, facility
- abuse
- commend, applaud, esteem, eulogize
- crush
- upraise, consolidate, compact, compress
- annoy
- please, appease, gratify, soothe
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1340, from O.Fr.
oppresser (13c.), from M.L.
oppressare, freq. of L.
opprimere "press against, crush" (in L.L. "to rape"), from
ob "against" +
premere "to press, push" (see press (v.1)).
Oppression (1340) "harsh exercise of authority" is from O.Fr.
opression, from L.
oppressionem (nom.
oppressio), from pp. stem of
opprimere.
2. 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. See: Latin '
opprimere'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] I _shall_ have a chance, I do ! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures, just because they are slaves, and have been abused and oppressed all their lives, poor things ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] by nature with a great, honest, just heart, quite equal to his gigantic frame, he had been for some years witnessing with repressed uneasiness the workings of a system equally bad for oppressor and oppressed. At last, one day, John's great heart had swelled altogether too big to wear his bonds any longer; so he just took his pocket-book out of his desk, and went over into Ohio, and bought a quarter of a [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and the passengers were of the same order of people. We fed at the same times, on the same kind of viands, in the same dull manner, and with the same observances. The company appeared to be oppressed by the same tremendous concealments, and had as little capacity of enjoyment or light-heartedness. I never in my life did see such listless, heavy dulness as brooded over these meals: the very [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ My dear cousin, you may as well understand, once for all, that we masters are divided into two classes, oppressors and oppressed. We who are good-natured and hate severity make up our minds to a good deal of inconvenience. If we _will keep_ a shambling, loose, untaught set in the community, for our convenience, why, we must [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] unquestionably take the lead; as they do in most other evidences of intelligence. But in travelling about, out of the large cities—as I have remarked in former parts of these volumes—I was quite oppressed by the prevailing seriousness and melancholy air of business: which was so general and unvarying, that at every new town I came to, I seemed to meet the very same people whom I had left behind me, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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CHAPTER XXXIII Cassy “ And behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.”—ECCL. 4:1
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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CHAPTER XXXIV The Quadroon’s Story And behold the tears of such as are oppressed; and on the side of their oppressors there was power. Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive.—ECCL. 4:1.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] Orleans slave-market,—though I hope to have no unchristian sentiments, yet I may be excused for saying, I have no wish to pass for an American, or to identify myself with them. ~~~ “ It is with the oppressed, enslaved African race that I cast in my lot; and, if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] Madame de Thoux, have resulted recently in the discovery of Cassy's son. Being a young man of energy, he had escaped, some years before his mother, and been received and educated by friends of the oppressed in the north. He will soon follow his family to Africa.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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But who may abide the day of his appearing ? “ for that day shall burn as an oven: and he shall appear as a swift witness against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that _turn aside the stranger in his right_: and he shall break in pieces the oppressor. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)