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oppress
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oppress as in:  oppressive government

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    My work environment is oppressive.
    oppressive = harsh and unfair
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    During his senior year at Woodson, he became obsessed with racial oppression in South Africa.  (source)
    oppression = harsh and unfair treatment
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    That tactic of empowering the oppressed goes even further back than the Panthers though.  (source)
    oppressed = people treated harshly and unfairly
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    In it, I read that my people, the Pashtuns, had persecuted and oppressed the Hazaras.  (source)
    oppressed = treated harshly and unfairly
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    The TSA guy at the front of the line was shouting about how our bags had better not contain explosives or firearms or anything liquid over three ounces, and I said to Augustus, "Observation: Standing in line is a form of oppression," and he said, "Seriously."  (source)
    oppression = harsh and unfair treatment
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,  (source)
    Oppress = treat harshly and unfairly
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    Let the grosser sort, Who see not what the point was I had pass'd, Bethink them if sore toil oppress'd me then.†  (source)
    oppress'd = treated harshly and unfairly; or people treated harshly and unfairly
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled oppressed.
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    An oddly familiar voice was shouting, "Down with the oppressor Sang Hong-zhen!†  (source)
    oppressor = one who dominates others harshly and unfairly  OR  one who denies equal rights to others or makes them suffer
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    A few days ago she gave a speech about uniting against our oppressors, the people outside.†  (source)
    oppressors = people who deny equal rights to others or make them suffer  OR  people who dominate others harshly and unfairly
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    Another oppressively hot day.†  (source)
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    She felt she was beginning to belong, and when one told her about the option of living at the cooperative, and that she could avail herself of it if her family was oppressing her, or, another added quickly, even if she just felt like a change, the possibility struck Nadia with a shock of recognition, as though a door was opening up, a door in this case shaped like a room.†  (source)
    oppressing = treating harshly and unfairly
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    Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.  (source)
    oppressions = harsh and unfair treatment
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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    It oppresses,—it terrifies me,—this mystery!†  (source)
    oppresses = treats harshly and unfairly
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oppress as in:  oppressive heat

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The heat is oppressive.
oppressive = uncomfortable (weighs heavily on the senses or spirit)
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    She is oppressed by her insecurity.
    oppressed = made uncomfortable (it weighs heavily on the spirit)
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    My voice strains to be louder than the laughter all around me, the laughter that oppresses me as much as the heat.  (source)
    oppresses = distresses or makes uncomfortable
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    And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn.  (source)
    oppressive = uncomfortable (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)
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    The going never gets exceedingly difficult, but the fifteen-foot-high tangle of alder pressing in from both sides is gloomy, claustrophobic, oppressive.  (source)
    oppressive = uncomfortable (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Buoyed up, I forgot my usual feeling of routine self-pity when working out, I lost myself, oppressed mind along with aching body; all entanglements were shed, I broke into the clear.  (source)
    oppressed = made uncomfortable (weighed heavily upon)
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    It may have been that the need of natural sleep, and the strange oppression of the air were beginning to overcome me.  (source)
    oppression = discomfort (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.  (source)
    oppresses = distresses
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    ...his spirits often oppress me;  (source)
    oppress = make uncomfortable
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    The cockpit was oppressively cramped, forcing pilot and copilot to live cheek by jowl for missions as long as sixteen hours.  (source)
    oppressively = uncomfortably
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    Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness — it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer. There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before.  (source)
    oppressiveness = discomfort
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The silence settled, undisturbed, oppressive.  (source)
    oppressive = uncomfortable (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)
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    What most oppressed him was the consciousness of his own intellectual inferiority.  (source)
    oppressed = weighed heavily on the senses or spirit
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    I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.  (source)
    oppression = mental discomfort (distress and worry)
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