✊oppress (ópres)

Meaning

To keep someone in subservience and hardship by unjust treatment.

to keep someone down by harsh and unfair use of authority; to suppress

Traducción del significado

Mantener a alguien en sumisión y sufrimiento mediante un trato injusto.

Mantener a alguien en sumisión y sufrimiento mediante un trato injusto.

Oraciones de ejemplo

The regime continued to oppress its citizens.

El régimen continuó oprimiendo a sus ciudadanos.

El régimen continuó oprimiendo a sus ciudadanos.

The dictator oppressed the people for decades.

El dictador oprimió a la gente durante décadas.

El dictador oprimió a la gente durante décadas.

Expresiones de ejemplo

oppress the poor

oprimir a los pobres

oprimir a los pobres

Synonyms

persecute, subjugate, suppress, tyrannize, dominate

Entrada 1

persecute, subjugate, suppress, tyrannize

Entrada 2

suppress, subjugate, persecute, dominate

Antonyms

liberate, free, emancipate, empower, support

Entrada 1

liberate, free, emancipate

Entrada 2

liberate, free, empower, support

Colocaciones

oppress minorities, oppress the poor, feel oppressed, oppress people, cruelly oppress, systematically oppress

Entrada 1

oppress minorities, oppress the poor, feel oppressed, oppress people

Entrada 2

oppress people, oppress minorities, cruelly oppress, systematically oppress