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Princeton's WordNet

  1. laden, oppressedadjective

    burdened psychologically or mentally

    "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"

GCIDE

  1. oppressedadjective

    having excessive or unfair burdens imposed.

Wiktionary

  1. oppressedadjective

    Subject to oppression.

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  1. oppressed

    Oppressed refers to a person, group or community that is subjected to unjust treatment, exploitation or discrimination by a more powerful entity such as a government, organization or another societal group. This may involve systemic denial of basic rights, freedoms, opportunities and access to resources, often leading to a state of hardship, poverty or marginalization.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of oppressed in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of oppressed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of oppressed in a Sentence

  1. Allie Beth Stuckey:

    When you elevate victimhood as virtue, you will create a culture in which people are tripping over themselves to be oppressed.

  2. Daunte Wright:

    The common thread is [an] understanding of all social, economicand political relations as a contestation for power between a class of oppressors (i.a., rich, White, heterosexual, male) and a class of oppressed.

  3. Giuseppe Mazzini:

    Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

  4. Former NFL player Jack Brewer:

    To tell these little black boys and girls, who have been perfectly made and given power by God their creator, that they are oppressed, is disgusting and it's wrong and it needs to end right now.

  5. Philippine Defence Minister Voltaire Gazmin:

    I will ask about the extent of the assistance they will give us, what they can do to help us because right now we are being oppressed, we feel concerned about what is happening in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). Freedom of navigation, freedom of flight is disrupted so that even U.S. aircraft flying at the international territory are challenged.

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