English-Dutch translations for oppress

• beklemmen
• knevelen
• onderdrukken
  Wetten maken wil niet zeggen onderdrukken. To legislate does not mean to oppress.
  In 2007 gaat de Raad voor vrede en ontwikkeling van Myanmar nog steeds door met het onderdrukken van de bevolking. In 2007 Myanmar's Peace and Development Council continues its oppression.
  Het gaat hier echter om niets anders dan een instrument om vrouwen blijvend te kunnen onderdrukken. In reality, this is an instrument which is intended to perpetuate women's oppression.
• persen

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