All 6 Uses of
oppress
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- What do I care for a hell for oppressors?†
Chpt 5
- I don't want the mother to embrace the oppressor who threw her son to the dogs!†
Chpt 5 *
- Why can there not be among them one martyr oppressed by great sorrow and loving humanity?†
Chpt 5
- He felt more and more oppressed by a strange physical weakness.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 12
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