Synonym: oppressiveness, subjugation. Similar words: suppression, compression, impression, depression, expression, oppressor, aggression, congressional. Meaning: [ə'preʃn] 
n. 1. the act of subjugating by cruelty 2. the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted" 3. a feeling of being oppressed.
n. 1. the act of subjugating by cruelty 2. the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted" 3. a feeling of being oppressed. 
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(151) Religion is a massively powerful fortifier to those suffering oppression and injustice.
(152) Legend: Thousands of years ago, an alienist sorceress known as Zceryll learned bizarre powers in a fight to defend herself against oppression.
(153) Turning a blind eye to oppression abroad is “a betrayal of our own noble past”, argues Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace-prize winner and a hero of the struggle against white rule.
(154) Freed from Romish oppression, the nation and greatness it had never before reached.
(155) France, long a symbol of colonialist oppression in North Africa, looked once again like the hated imperial power it had formerly been.
(156) Being able to redound to environment protection, men's study encourage the male to overset the oppression of the patriarchy , and protect the environment hand in hand with the female.
(157) Based on the stifling experience of a sensitive educated woman in her family, the novelette reveals the oppression of women from the prison, their patriarchal families.
(158) It dealt with topics as problems facing society , oppression of the lower classes, etc.
(159) Epileptic nature of the performance of a variety of pain, such as the oppression of pain, rebound tenderness, needle-like pain and electric shock-like pain.
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