oppress
verb (used with object)
to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power.
has oppressed
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present perfectof oppress (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Human rights groups say the Chinese government has oppressed members of the Uyghur Muslim minority on a massive scale.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
But the heat — the latest edition of the broiling wave that has oppressed New York and other parts of the country for the past few weeks — was not far behind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2012
It is now fairly commonplace to learn American history in the context of who has oppressed, excluded or otherwise mistreated whom.
From Time Magazine Archive
When dinner has oppressed one, I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The removal of the Court from Aranjues to this city, and a bilious disorder which has oppressed me more than a month, and which still afflicts me, have in part, been the reason.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks
