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# oppress

«oppress» in Mova's school dictionary: **to treat them cruelly and unfairly, keeping them under…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (oppresses, oppressed, oppressing)

### meaning for a pupil

To oppress people is to treat them cruelly and unfairly, keeping them under hard control. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppress/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a cruel ruler oppresses the people and takes away their freedom

### examples

- The wicked king oppressed the poor villagers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppress/#x1)
- No one should oppress another person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppress/#x2)
- The people rose up against the soldiers who oppressed them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppress/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.636/)
- [And Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.412/)
- [Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.17/)
- [O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.818/)
- [Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.69/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oppress» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppress/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.