English-Italian translations for oppress

• opprimere
  Legiferare non significa opprimere. To legislate does not mean to oppress.
  L'onorevole Senyszyn ha accusato la chiesa cattolica di opprimere le donne. Mrs Senyszyn accused the Catholic Church of oppressing women.
  Anche la Romania sta intraprendendo una campagna politica che mira a opprimere le minoranze ungheresi. Romania is also waging a political campaign for the oppression of Hungarian minorities.

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