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oppression
noun
1 oppression
The act of subjugating by cruelty:
— The tyrant's oppression of the people.
synonym: subjugation.
Roget 739:
severity;
strictness,
harshness
etc.
adj.;
rigor,
stringency,
austerity;
inclemency
etc.
(pitilessness)
914.1;
arrogance
etc.
885;
precisianism†.
arbitrary power;
absolutism,
despotism;
dictatorship,
autocracy,
tyranny,
domineering,
oppression;
assumption,
usurpation;
inquisition,
reign of terror,
martial law;
iron heel,
iron rule,
iron hand,
iron sway;
tight grasp;
brute force,
brute strength;
coercion
etc.
744;
strong hand,
tight hand.
hard lines,
hard measure;
tender mercies [Iron.];
sharp practice;
pipe-clay,
officialism.
tyrant,
disciplinarian,
precisian†,
martinet,
stickler,
bashaw†,
despot,
hard master,
Draco,
oppressor,
inquisitor,
extortioner,
harpy,
vulture;
accipitres†,
birds of prey,
raptorials†,
raptors†.
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Roget 749:
subjection;
dependence,
dependency;
subordination;
thrall,
thralldom,
thraldom,
enthrallment,
subjugation,
bondage,
serfdom;
feudalism,
feudality†;
vassalage,
villenage;
slavery,
enslavement,
involuntary servitude;
conquest.
service;
servitude,
servitorship†;
tendence†,
employ,
tutelage,
clientship†;
liability
etc.
177;
constraint
etc.
751;
oppression
etc.
(severity)
739;
yoke
etc.
(means of restraint)
752;
submission
etc.
725;
obedience
etc.
743.
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Roget 649:
hurtfulness
etc.
adj.;
virulence.
evil doer
etc.
913;
bane
etc.
663;
plague spot
etc.
(insalubrity)
657;
evil star,
ill wind;
hoodoo;
Jonah;
snake in the grass,
skeleton in the closet;
amari aliquid [Lat.],
thorn in the side.
malignity;
malevolence
etc.
907;
tender mercies [Iron.].
ill-treatment,
annoyance,
molestation,
abuse,
oppression,
persecution,
outrage;
misusage
etc.
679;
injury
etc.
(damage)
659;
knockout drops [U.S.].
badness
etc.
adj.;
peccancy†,
abomination;
painfulness
etc.
830;
pestilence
etc.
(disease)
655;
guilt
etc.
947;
depravity
etc.
945.
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2 oppression
The state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:.
Dutch: onderdrukking, bedruktheid, oppressie
3 oppression
Moby thesaurus: McCarthyism, Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abuse, affliction, airlessness, anguish, argumentum baculinum, bale, big stick, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blank despondency, burden, burden of care, burdening, burthen, cankerworm of care, care, cargo, charge, charging, closeness, cross, crown of thorns, cumber, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, despotism, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, distress, domination, domineering, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drag, drooping spirits, encumbrance, enslavement, fascism, freight, gall, gall and wormwood, grievance, handicap, harassment, hardship, harrying, heartlessness, heavy hand, high hand, hopelessness, hounding, incubus, incumbency, infliction, injury, injustice, iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, lading, load, loading, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, maltreatment, millstone, oppressiveness, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack of troubles, pain, peck of troubles, persecution, pessimism, pressure, red-baiting, reign of terror, repression, saddling, sea of troubles, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, sorrow, spiritlessness, stuffiness, subjection, subjugation, suicidal despair, superincumbency, suppression, surcharge, taedium vitae, taxing, terrorism, thorn, thought control, torment, tormenting, torture, trouble, tyranny, victimization, waters of bitterness, weariness of life, weight, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, woe ... show more.
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