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am oppressing
  • present progressive of oppress (1st person singular).

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‘I don’t oppress her; but it’s so confounded flat to be always cherishing and protecting; and then, how can I tell that I am oppressing her when she “melts away and makes no sign”? 

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne