English-German translations for oppress

• unterdrücken
  Jenen gefällig zu sein, die sie unterdrücken? To be complacent towards those who oppress them?
  Kann denn eine Demokratie gewisse Gruppen nicht unterdrücken? But is it not possible for a democracy to oppress certain groups?
  Noch schwerer wiegt jedoch die Tatsache, dass mein Land beschimpft wurde und dass sie ihr eigenes Volk unterdrücken. But, more importantly than that, they cursed my country and they oppress their own people.
• beklemmen
• Knechten

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