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oppressive government
Definition
to dominate harshly and unfairly; or to make suffer
The 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
- I don't want the mother to embrace the oppressor who threw her son to the dogs!Book 5 — Pro And Contra (46% in)
- What do I care for a hell for oppressors?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (46% in)
There are no more uses of "oppress" flagged with this meaning in The Brothers Karamazov.
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- He felt more and more oppressed by a strange physical weakness.Book 9 — The Preliminary Investigation (92% in)
- The foreign criminal, they say, rarely repents, for the very doctrines of to-day confirm him in the idea that his crime is not a crime, but only a reaction against an unjustly oppressive force.Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (53% in)
- Why can there not be among them one martyr oppressed by great sorrow and loving humanity?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (71% in)
- Here I must mention that Smerdyakov, oppressed by terror and despair of a sort, had felt during those last few days that one of the fits from which he had suffered before at moments of strain, might be coming upon him again.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (53% in)
There are no more uses of "oppress" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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