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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.
Today's unions are employing the same strong-arm tactics used to oppress the industrial work force of the 19th century.
I can see the law at last punishing those who kill, abuse or oppress Dalits.
On the way, London's ancient, massive buildings, black statues and dirt surround me, oppress and burden me.
It argues that the modern world fosters institutions and ideas that exploit and oppress people and degrade and destroy the environment.
Dictators still oppress many hundreds of millions of people, and are still perpetrating genocide and promoting terrorism.

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