All 5 Uses of
oppress
in
Great Expectations
- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks.†
Chpt 3
- When I first went into it, and, rather oppressed by its gloom, stood near the door looking about me, I saw her pass among the extinguished fires, and ascend some light iron stairs, and go out by a gallery high overhead, as if she were going out into the sky.†
Chpt 8
- From that room, too, the daylight was completely excluded, and it had an airless smell that was oppressive.†
Chpt 11 *
- Of course I had no experience of a London summer day, and my spirits may have been oppressed by the hot exhausted air, and by the dust and grit that lay thick on everything.†
Chpt 20
- A stranger would have found them insupportable, and even to me they were so oppressive that I hesitated, half inclined to go back.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(oppress as in: oppressive government) to dominate harshly and unfairly; or to make sufferThe meaning of oppress depends upon its context. For example:
- "The authorities oppress political activists," or "The new nation oppressed Native Americans." -- to dominate harshly and unfairly
- "She is oppressed by excessive debt." - made to suffer