Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oppress

(transitive) To keep down by unjust force. / (transitive) To make sad or gloomy. / (transitive, obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

Burdensome or difficult to bear. / Tyrannical or exercising unjust power. / Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming / Hot and humid of the weather.

The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. / The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed. / A feeling of being oppressed.

Subject to oppression.

simple past tense and past participle of oppress

present participle of oppress

In an oppressive manner.

The characteristic of being oppressive.

plural of oppression