Oppresses is valid Scrabble Word

Is oppresses a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for OPPRESSES in dictionary:

VERB:

OPPRESS, to treat with tyrannical injustice
keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority
cause distress or anxiety to

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to burden by abuse of power or authority

Words related to OPPRESSES

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How to use OPPRESSES in a sentence

The weary world of waters between us oppresses the imagination.
Our own ignorance oppresses us so much that we feel tempted to say that we cannot attempt it.
The dome rests on four immense pillars, the bulk of which quite oppresses the light galleries running around the walls.
It fastens on society an army of police to be supported, and it oppresses the land with taxes.
MISS FLYN I can no longer labour with a secret which oppresses me thus.
Failure to get pension or old age assistance oppresses her mind.
Whatever rejoices or pains, oppresses or occupies us, is poured forth from the heart.
As for me, you know what he deserves at my hands, but I shall never become the hound of a government which oppresses me unjustly.
Her marked coldness so oppresses him that he steps back, and does not venture to address her again.
But there is something that oppresses me like an invisible burden.

One never realizes the weight of suffering which oppresses his friend.
Though you live so far away, you enjoy the blessings of a good emperor no less than we do, whereas the tyrant only oppresses his nearest neighbours.
The very possession of the letter, in the present excited state of my nerves, oppresses and revolts me.
His subjects hurl infernal machines at the tyrant because he represents the system which oppresses them.
Every government, even the most despotic, while it rules a nation with a rod of iron, depends for its life upon the people whom it oppresses.
When sick they are not always free from imposition, even when they receive aid in the name of charity, and sometimes theology under the cloak of religion oppresses them.
The first glance at great overhanging masses of rock, oppresses us with a feeling of awe.
So if someone assaults, injures, oppresses and wounds me, I will offer no resistance, and I will forgive him.
The clothing oppresses the sick man and he can barely support it.
I see this place where I am, changing like magic under the influence of school and church, but the necessity for our going forward oppresses me.
I doubt he is not free yet from his complaint, as the humour fallen on his breast still oppresses him.
The Comic is perpetually springing up in social life, and, it oppresses them from not being perceived.
The consolation and advice of a friend, Philip, are not to be despised, and you will feel relieved if able to talk over with him a subject which evidently oppresses you.
O my beloved friend! how the loss of these two worthies of my family oppresses me at times! Mr.
No panic has seized you, and still oppresses you, because of the narrow dimensions in which you have to seat yourself for the next three hours.
The Arms Act oppresses them, by leaving them defenceless against wild beasts and wild men.
I felt that painful wish to return which oppresses you when you have left a beloved invalid at home, and when you are seized by a presentiment that he is worse.
But it oppresses with the weight of sins and with the guilt of hell.
If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head.
The responsibility, the weight of it, oppresses me.
I owe a painful face-ache, which oppresses me at this moment, to a cold caught, sitting by her, one day in last July, at this receipt of coolness.
Distract her mind as much as possible from the trouble, whatever it is, that oppresses it.

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