English-Czech translations for oppress

• utiskovat
  Právní řád Společenství, již vytvořený smlouvami, které mají přednost před vnitrostátním právem, má nyní více utiskovat a ničit uvedené práva členských států. The Community legal order, already set up with treaties that take precedence over national rights, now wants to be more and more oppressive and destructive of the said rights of the Member States.

Definition of oppress

• To keep down by unjust force
• To make sad or gloomy
• Physically to press down on with harmful effects; to smother, crush

Examples

• The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners
• We were oppressed by the constant grey skies

Related words

• oppression
• oppressive
• oppressed
• oppressor
• oppressively
• oppressiveness
• antioppression
• unoppressed
• immunosoppressor