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# oppressed

«oppressed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Treated in a cruel and unfair way by people with power…** — 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

adjective (oppressed); verb form (past tense and past participle of oppress: oppress, oppresses, oppressed, oppressing); noun (the oppressed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Treated in a cruel and unfair way by people with power, and not given freedom or rights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#m1)

2) (feeling) Weighed down by worry or sadness, as in "oppressed by the heat". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#m2)

3) (the oppressed) People who are treated unfairly by those in power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history, citizenship and religious education: enslaved people, people under dictators and groups denied rights were oppressed; movements for civil rights fought against it. In the Bible, the Israelites in Egypt were oppressed and God led them out (the Exodus). Phrases: "the oppressed", "oppressed people", "feel oppressed".

### examples

- The workers were oppressed by the cruel factory owner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x1)
- Martin Luther King Jr. spoke up for oppressed people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x2)
- In the Bible, the Israelites were oppressed in Egypt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x3)
- Many charities help the poor and the oppressed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x4)
- She felt oppressed by the heavy, hot air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x5)
- The king oppressed his people with high taxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x6)
- In the story, the oppressed villagers rose up against the tyrant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x7)
- A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressed/#x8)

### note

Spelling: double p and double s. Noun "oppression"; adjective "oppressive" (cruel and unfair; or uncomfortably hot: "oppressive heat"); person who does it: "oppressor". Not the same as "depressed" (very sad).

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- [The LORD also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.105/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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