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oppression

/uh-presh-uhn/US // əˈprɛʃ ən //UK // (əˈprɛʃən) //

压迫,镇压,压迫感,欺压

Related Words

brutality残暴,暴行,残暴行为,残暴的行为dictatorship独裁统治,专制,独裁政权,独裁maltreatment虐待,虐待行为,凌辱,凌虐cruelty残酷性,残酷,残酷的,残酷的行为despotism专制主义,专制制度,独裁主义,专制domination支配,支配权,支配力,主宰abuse滥用,虐待,辱骂,虐待行为suffering痛苦,苦难,煎熬,苦痛injustice不公正,不公平,不公,不正义persecution迫害,逼迫coercion胁迫,强迫性,强迫,胁迫性control控制,管制,控制权,操控compulsion强迫性,强迫症,强迫,强迫感force力量,力,权力,力度severity严重性,严重程度,严格,严厉程度autocracy专制主义,专制,专制制度,专政fascism法西斯主义,法西斯,法主义harshness严酷性,严酷,苛刻,恶劣的环境calamity劫难,灾难,灾祸,灾情torment煎煎熬熬,煎熬,折磨,荼毒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
    • : an act or instance of oppressing or subjecting to cruel or unjust impositions or restraints.
    • : the state of being oppressed.
    • : the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmisery, hardship
Synonyms
abuse滥用,虐待,辱骂,虐待行为brutality残暴,暴行,残暴行为,残暴的行为coercion胁迫,强迫性,强迫,胁迫性cruelty残酷性,残酷,残酷的,残酷的行为despotism专制主义,专制制度,独裁主义,专制dictatorship独裁统治,专制,独裁政权,独裁domination支配,支配权,支配力,主宰injustice不公正,不公平,不公,不正义maltreatment虐待,虐待行为,凌辱,凌虐persecution迫害,逼迫suffering痛苦,苦难,煎熬,苦痛autocracy专制主义,专制,专制制度,专政calamity劫难,灾难,灾祸,灾情compulsion强迫性,强迫症,强迫,强迫感conquering征服,征服的,攻克,征服者control控制,管制,控制权,操控fascism法西斯主义,法西斯,法主义force力量,力,权力,力度hardness硬度,硬性,硬质,硬化harshness严酷性,严酷,苛刻,恶劣的环境injury外伤,伤害,损伤,伤痛severity严重性,严重程度,严格,严厉程度subjection臣服,统治,服从,征服torment煎煎熬熬,煎熬,折磨,荼毒abusiveness虐待行为,滥用,侵权行为,滥用职权forcibleness强迫性,强制性,强制,强制执行iron hand铁手,铁手掌,铁的手,铁腕martial law戒严令,戒严,戒严法,军法overthrowing推翻,推翻了,推翻的,打倒subduing镇压,压服,征服,抑制tyrrany暴政,霸王条款,暴行,暴君

Examples

  • So… the nation was struggling with how to assimilate their new freedom with the oppression of the past.

  • He gave his supporters a sense of belonging, a shared sense of oppression from those in positions of power and influence.

  • Help them accept non-closure, both because the event is evolving hourly and because it is representative of larger systems of oppression that have been operating in our country for generations.

  • It doesn’t treat the United States as an unvarying force for freedom or oppression but as an arena where worldviews compete.

  • This needs conscious change, and that will take as much effort as any other fight against systematic oppression.

  • The reason we were liberals is we were against oppression.

  • They are to face oppression with humble persistence and absolute conviction.

  • Jundullah and Jaish ul Adl sprang up “in reaction to that kind of oppression,” he said.

  • If anything, every new religion emerged at least in part as a protest against violence and oppression.

  • But for many Muslim women, religion is seen as a source of liberation rather than a source of oppression.

  • He was able to make peace with the Chinese emperor, and under his rule the Koreans enjoyed freedom from war and oppression.

  • At the time of his birth, the rulers of the country were very unpopular because of their wickedness and oppression of the people.

  • It is a thing invented by the great to enable them to pursue the grinding and oppression of the small.

  • And the fact must be insisted upon, that all religion, in its very nature, makes for persecution and oppression.

  • Blood-shed, oppression, extortion, and all the instinctive habits of the shrewd savage were again rife.

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