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.
will oppress
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future tenseof oppress.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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For myself I know my weakness, and so little covet, Like some gone past, the weight that will oppress me, As my ambition is the counter-point.
From Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson
To dream of seeing an old man, or woman, denotes that unhappy cares will oppress you, if they appear otherwise than serene.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
No legislation of this Congress will be found upon the statute books, revolutionary in character or which will oppress any section or individual in the land.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer
In fact, the principle thus stated means only that governments will oppress unless they abstain from oppressing.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
It seems to be feared that the Northern States will oppress the trade of the Southern.
From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
