All 11 Uses of
oppress
in
David Copperfield
- I never shall forget the waking, next morning; the being cheerful and fresh for the first moment, and then the being weighed down by the stale and dismal oppression of remembrance.†
Chpt 4-6
- When I could cry no more, I began to think; and then the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for.†
Chpt 7-9
- That was before he came to me, but the recollection of it is oppressive to him even now.†
Chpt 13-15
- 'You shall not be oppressed by the receipt of favours, Miss Trotwood.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- All this time we, the outsiders, remained oppressed by the tremendous interests involved in the conversation; and our host regarded us with pride, as the victims of a salutary awe and astonishment.†
Chpt 25-27
- When I awoke, the recollection that Uriah was lying in the next room, sat heavy on me like a waking nightmare; and oppressed me with a leaden dread, as if I had had some meaner quality of devil for a lodger.†
Chpt 25-27
- A miserable foreboding that she would yield to, and sustain herself by, the same feeling in reference to any sacrifice for his sake, had oppressed me ever since.†
Chpt 25-27
- He laid his head upon her shoulder, as if he were oppressed with heavy shame, and went out with her.†
Chpt 37-39
- The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London.†
Chpt 46-48
- I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing.†
Chpt 58-60
- This Christmas-time being come, and Agnes having reposed no new confidence in me, a doubt that had several times arisen in my mind — whether she could have that perception of the true state of my breast, which restrained her with the apprehension of giving me pain — began to oppress me heavily.†
Chpt 61-62
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