Thesaurus / oppress
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To make sure that we are committing to governing by including those who feel that they’ve been forgotten, oppressed and overlooked.
NANCY PELOSI ISN’T THE ONLY WOMAN IN HOUSE LEADERSHIP ANYMORE. MEET INCOMING ASSISTANT SPEAKER KATHERINE CLARKEHINCHLIFFENOVEMBER 25, 2020FORTUNEThe fact that women can occupy the dual role of oppressor and oppressed is a reality that is still not fully understood.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO SEE WOMEN AS CAPABLE … OF TERRIBLE ATROCITIESLGBTQ-EDITORNOVEMBER 21, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSMy grandparents, Vartan and Yersapet, were among the proud but oppressed Armenian minorities in the Ottoman province of Adana.
HOW BIKING ACROSS AMERICA FORMED AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPRAFFI JOE WARTANIANOCTOBER 8, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEPeople are just so angered, and their anger is directed at us, because we are part of the machine and the system that has oppressed them.
WHAT CAN MAYORS DO WHEN THE POLICE STOP DOING THEIR JOBS?BY ALEC MACGILLISSEPTEMBER 3, 2020PROPUBLICAThe AI community is finally waking up to the fact that machine learning can cause disproportionate harm to already oppressed and disadvantaged groups.
PARTICIPATION-WASHING COULD BE THE NEXT DANGEROUS FAD IN MACHINE LEARNINGAMY NORDRUMAUGUST 25, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWLet him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe general sense clearly is, that the friars oppress the weak, but not the strong.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERI never injured a creature in my life, and can not find it in my heart to wish evil even to those who injure and oppress me.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTIn the first place, I am an Anarchist: I do not believe in man-made law, designed to enslave and oppress humanity.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANThe employment of children and apprentices enabled the masters to oppress them; they were unable to earn more than 8s.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTWORDS RELATED TO OPPRESS
- abase
- afflict
- ail
- bear down
- beat
- beat down
- bother
- bug
- bum out
- cast down
- chill
- cow
- damp
- dampen
- darken
- daunt
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- degrade
- desolate
- devitalize
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- dispirit
- distress
- disturb
- drag
- drain
- dull
- enervate
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- keep under
- lower
- mock
- mortify
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- perturb
- press
- put down
- reduce
- reduce to tears
- run down
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- sap
- scorn
- slow
- throw cold water on
- torment
- trouble
- try
- turn one off
- upset
- weaken
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- weigh down
- afflict
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- be on one's case
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- break
- bug
- burn up
- depress
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- discombobulate
- disquiet
- disturb
- do a number on
- dog
- eat
- get
- get to
- give a hard time
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- hound
- hurt
- injure
- irk
- irritate
- make it tough for
- miff
- nag
- needle
- nit-pick
- oppress
- pain
- peeve
- perplex
- pester
- pick on
- plague
- push
- push buttons
- rack
- sadden
- strain
- strap
- stress
- tick off
- torment
- torture
- trouble
- try
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- weigh
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- breaks
- bugs
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- depresses
- desolates
- discombobulates
- disquiets
- disturbs
- does a number on
- dogs
- eats
- gets
- gets to
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- grieves
- harasses
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- hounds
- hurts
- injures
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- is on one's case
- makes it tough for
- miffs
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- needles
- nit-picks
- oppresses
- pains
- peeves
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- straps
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- ticks off
- torments
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- weighs
- winds
- bind
- capture
- chain
- check
- circumscribe
- coerce
- compel
- confine
- deprive
- disenfranchise
- disfranchise
- dominate
- enchain
- enclose
- enthrall
- fetter
- get hooks into
- hobble
- hold
- immure
- imprison
- incarcerate
- indenture
- jail
- keep under thumb
- oppress
- put in irons
- reduce
- restrain
- restrict
- secure
- shackle
- shut in
- subdue
- subject
- subjugate
- suppress
- tether
- tie
- yoke
- afflict
- bear down on
- bother
- burden
- crush
- cumber
- depress
- dish it out
- dish out
- dump on
- encumber
- freight
- give it to
- hamper
- handicap
- hinder
- impede
- load
- make heavy
- obligate
- oppress
- overcharge
- overload
- overwhelm
- pile
- press
- saddle
- saddle with
- snow
- snow under
- stick it to
- strain
- tax
- trouble
- try
- vex
- weigh down
- weight
- worry
- affront
- aggrieve
- boil over
- burn up
- defile
- deflower
- desecrate
- do violence to
- fire up
- force
- ill-treat
- incense
- infuriate
- injure
- insult
- jar
- kick up a row
- madden
- make hit the ceiling
- maltreat
- mistreat
- misuse
- oppress
- persecute
- raise Cain
- rape
- ravage
- ravish
- reach boiling point
- scandalize
- shock
- spoil
- violate
- whip up
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