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What does oppress mean?

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Verb
  1. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
  2. (transitive) To keep down by force
  3. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy
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This method possesses the inappreciable advantage of relieving us from the mental strain which would otherwise oppress us.
In this latter view, absolute truth and creedal faith are seen as fundamentalisms that not only oppress but foster violence.
I can see the law at last punishing those who kill, abuse or oppress Dalits.
They seek to establish their own state to oppress people, legally and officially.
You can only oppress a community for so long before they will fight with toothpicks against machine guns.
His reputation was as a conciliator and latitudinarian, anxious not to oppress the dissenters.

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