View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Oppress.

Oppress meaning

To keep down by unjust force. | To make sad or gloomy. | Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

Example sentences (20)

And they want the truth to be (hidden from) those that they oppress.

Boycotting industries that oppress nonhuman animals by becoming vegan is a powerful action.

But Winthrop’s history is much darker; its namesake both actively worked to enslave and oppress Black and Indigenous individuals during the 1600s and 1700s.

However, from the moment that one of the sides begins to deliberately oppress the Church, the possibility of dialogue ceases.

In early April, the Ugandan president delivered a speech to African leaders urging a continental movement to oppress “the promotion and publicization of homosexuality” in the name of eradicating European influence.

Security replaces reconciliation and becomes an excuse for the victors to impose severe restrictions on the defeated, steal their property, and oppress them.

The idiots tried to claim the city was complicit in a conspiracy to establish one world government that would oppress them.

This bill enacted by DeSantis has the leverage to oppress an entire community.

Today, as India commemorates its 75th Army Day, its troops continue to brutally oppress Kashmiris in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

When their plot failed, Dooku violently ended their partnership, but they soon became part of the Shadow Collective, led by the Sith pretenders Maul and Savage Oppress.

Alinejad accused the Iranian government of continuing to oppress women in Iran and make them wear the mandatory headscarf, or hijab, even two years after the death of Mahsa Amini that sparked weekslong mass protests.

As long as lawmakers are trying to oppress LGBTQ+ people, representation matters.

Democrats codified Jim Crow laws to suppress and oppress all persons they deemed beneath them based upon melanin.

I am a man from a humble background who became who I am by the grace of God and will therefore not use my position to oppress anyone but to better the lots of the people.

In a jiffy, the commission lost its relevance and respect as many members of the public began to see it, under successive chairmen, as nothing but a witch-hunting political tool used to oppress and suppress people considered enemies of the ruling party.

The costumes represent not just attire but the symbolism of absolute power wielded by white men without consequence — power used to coerce, oppress, victimise, and humiliate, enforcing compliance with certain values and norms.

The foreigners empower local leaders to oppress.

They’re accused of being men disguised as women in an attempt to cheat or just oppress women further.

Because the truth of the matter is the system that was built to oppress black people was very deliberate too.

Flood-Beaubrun in 2019: “Why would you take an oppressive tax and use it to target, attack and oppress poor people?