English-Danish translations for oppress

• undertrykke
  At lovgive betyder ikke at undertrykke. To legislate does not mean to oppress.
  Hundredtusindvis af systemkritikere undertrykkes eller sidder fængslet i arbejdslejre. Hundreds of thousands of dissidents are oppressed or imprisoned in labour camps.
  Beder de om at være forstående over for dem, der undertrykker dem? To be complacent towards those who oppress them?

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