Sentences for Oppress, Sentences with Oppress Meaning and Synonym Words

Sentences for Oppress, Sentences with Oppress Meaning and Synonym Words

oppress

Meanings;

• Keep (someone) in subservience and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority.(transitive verb)

Synonyms

persecute, abuse, maltreat, ill-treat, treat harshly, be brutal to, be cruel to, tyrannize, crush, repress, suppress, subjugate, hegemonize, subdue, subject, enslave,

Example Sentences with oppress

• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
• All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
• Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.