oppression
Meaning of oppression
noun
- The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution.
- A feeling of being oppressed.
Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
Information about oppression
- It is a name.
- The plural form of oppression is: oppressions.
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Hyphenation of oppression
op-pres-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- oppression is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
oppression synonyms
Meaning subjugation:
Meaning oppressiveness:
Translation of oppression
- Spanish: tiranía, despotismo, opresión
- French: oppression
- Portuguese: opressão
- Italian: oppressione, vessazione, tirannia, despotismo
Words that rhyme with oppression
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion
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