Synonyms of the word oppress


OPPRESSBEDEVIL - CRUCIFY - CRUSH - DUN - FRUSTRATE - PERSECUTE - RAG - SUPPRESS - TORMENT

oppress

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

bedevil

  • v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
  • v. To perplex or bewilder.

crucify

  • v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
  • v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
  • v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

crush

  • n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  • n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
  • n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
  • n. A violent crowding.
  • n. A crowd control barrier.
  • n. An infatuation or affection for.
  • n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
  • n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
  • n. A party, festive function.
  • n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
  • v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
  • v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
  • v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
  • v. To oppress or burden grievously.
  • v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
  • v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
  • v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

dun

  • n. A brownish grey colour.
  • adj. Of a brownish grey colour.
  • n. (countable) A collector of debts.
  • n. An urgent request or demand of payment.
  • v. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
  • v. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
  • n. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
  • n. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
  • n. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
  • n. (archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded…
  • v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
  • v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: Contraction of do + not.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered…
  • n. A mound or small hill.
  • interj. (humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.

frustrate

  • v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
  • v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
  • v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
  • adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

persecute

  • v. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially,…
  • v. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

rag

  • n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
  • n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
  • n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
  • n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
  • n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
  • n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
  • n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
  • v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
  • n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
  • v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
  • v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
  • v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
  • v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
  • v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
  • v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
  • n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
  • n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
  • n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

suppress

  • v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
  • v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
  • v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
  • v. To prevent publication.
  • v. To stop a flow or stream.
  • v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
  • v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
  • v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

torment

  • n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
  • n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
  • n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
  • v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

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