All 16 Uses of
oppress
in
Dune
- Again she felt a sense of oppression at the importance of water on Arrakis.†
Book 1
- People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.†
Book 1
- The boy will know by that time how to oppress with impunity.†
Book 2
- One of the slave-concubines permitted my father under the Bene Gesserit-Guild agreement could not, of course, bear a Royal Successor, but the intrigues were constant and oppressive in their similarity.†
Book 2
- "That conditions on the prison planet are more oppressive than anywhere else," Hawat said.†
Book 3
- You hear that the mortality rate among new prisoners is higher than sixty per cent. You hear that the Emperor practices every form of oppression there.†
Book 3
- There cannot be more than a handful of Fremen left after the Sardaukar pogrom and Rabban's oppression.†
Book 3
- By your argument, I could recruit from among the Fremen after the way they've been oppressed by my nephew.†
Book 3
- Hawat spoke in a mild voice: "Don't you oppress any of your troops?†
Book 3
- "Oppression is a relative thing," Hawat said.†
Book 3
- I'd remove them from their oppressive situation and isolate them with a training cadre of people who understood their background, preferably people who had preceded them from the same oppressive situation.†
Book 3
- I'd remove them from their oppressive situation and isolate them with a training cadre of people who understood their background, preferably people who had preceded them from the same oppressive situation.†
Book 3
- This would only make him oppress the population even more.†
Book 3
- So that's the reason for the oppression now.†
Book 3 *
- Gurney turned away, feeling an oppressive sense of foreboding.†
Book 3
- We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive.†
Book A2 -
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