Synonyms for oppress
əˈprɛsop·press

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1. oppress

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

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1. oppress

   Synonyms:
   burden, grind, weigh down, persecute, aggrieve, maltreat, abuse, overbear, constrain

   Antonyms:
   encourage, support, patronize, assist, befriend

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1. oppress, suppress, crushverb

   come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

   "The government oppresses political activists"

   Synonyms:
   repress, bottle up, squelch, beat, stamp down, inhibit, break down, persecute, crush, suppress, vanquish, squeeze, demolish, shell, trounce, mash, conquer, squash, beat out, curb, jam, subdue, smash

2. persecute, oppressverb

   cause to suffer

   "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

   Synonyms:
   suppress, persecute, crush

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1. oppressverb

   Synonyms:
   overburden, crush, overwhelm, overpower, weigh heavily upon, bear hard upon

2. oppressverb

   Synonyms:
   persecute, wrong, maltreat, treat cruelly, tyrannize over

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1. oppressverb

   Synonyms:
   burden, overwhelm, aggrieve, tyrannize, persecute, overpower

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1. List of paraphrases for "oppress":

   repress, suppress, stifle

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1. Probarb:

   COVID-19 pandemic is just a drama and no such virus exists as Corona. It is history's biggest fooling propaganda done to harass and oppress common people.

2. Olivia Alaso:

   When you see a white person here you think Bery Glaser're coming with the biggest opportunities, so people like Bery Glaser are able to use their privilege to oppress and exploit our people, the Ugandan government should be doing thorough and proper checks on Bery Glaser backgrounds at home [ before granting visas ], and also the work these people are doing in our communities.

3. Frederick Douglass:

   Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

4. Mario Diaz-Balart:

   The expansion of regularly scheduled flights to Cuba is an obvious attempt to circumvent the tourism ban, similarly, allowing cruises to dock in Cuba would violate both the spirit and the letter of U.S. law. Increased travel to Cuba directly funds the individuals and institutions that oppress the Cuban people.

5. Drake Leung:

   Maybe 30 or 40 years ago there were actually more fishermen or farmers in Hong Kong. Now society has changed so much but they still retain this system, this framework to oppress the views of the people.