Definition of "oppress" in Englisch

verb

1. (transitive) To keep down by unjust force.

   • The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.

2. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.

   • We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.

3. (transitive, obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To sexually violate; to rape.

noun

1. (obsolete) Oppression.