oppressing

Meaning of oppressing

verb
  1. To keep down by unjust force.
    The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
  2. To make sad or gloomy.
    We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.
  3. Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

Information about oppressing

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of oppressing

op-press-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • oppressing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with oppressing

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