Synonyms for oppression
əˈprɛʃ ənop·pres·sion

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1. oppression

   Synonyms:
   captivity, compulsion, constraint, imprisonment, necessity, obligation, serfdom, servitude, slavery, superstition, thraldom

   Antonyms:
   emancipation, freedom, independence, liberty, license

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1. oppression

   Synonyms:
   cruelty, tyranny, severity, injustice, hardship

   Antonyms:
   kindness, mercy, clemency, leniency, justice

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1. oppression, subjugationnoun

   the act of subjugating by cruelty

   "the tyrant's oppression of the people"

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquering, subjection, conquest, oppressiveness

2. oppressionnoun

   the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted"

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, oppressiveness

3. oppression, oppressivenessnoun

   a feeling of being oppressed

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, burdensomeness, onerousness, heaviness, oppressiveness

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1. oppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   hardship, misery, suffering, calamity

2. oppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tyranny, severity, cruelty, injustice, persecution

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1. oppressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tyranny, persecution, extortion, hardship, severity

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1. List of paraphrases for "oppression":

   repression, suppression, tightness, persecution, injustice, subjugation, tyranny, coercion, repressive

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1. Marshall Allen:

   We Shall Overcome. this is just a beginning in dismantling systems of oppression in higher education, specifically the UM system.

2. Ilhan Omar:

   It is as if every time we say something that is supposed to be about foreign policy or engagement or the efficacy of ending oppression or the freeing of every human life and wanting dignity, we get labeled by something that end the discussion, because we end up defending that and no one gets to have the proper debate about what is happening in Palestine.

3. Karsonya Wise Whitehead:

   When I was in Kenya, the guy who took my bag (at the airport) was Black. The guy who flew the plane was Black. The president was Black, as a Black person from an African country, you haven’t seen the long history of oppression, the long history of social injustice that those of us who were born here, who are descendants of enslaved people, have seen.

4. South African:

   A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world.

5. Coya Crespin:

   This is systemic oppression. This is gentrification at real time.