Oppressing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OPPRESSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• OPPRESS, to treat with tyrannical injustice
• cause distress or anxiety to
• keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to burden by abuse of power or authority

Words related to OPPRESSING

oppress11 oppressed14 oppresses13

Words that contain OPPRESSING

oppressingly20

How to use OPPRESSING in a sentence

• The knight would be only a hardhearted warrior, oppressing the poor and miserable, and only interesting from his deeds of valor.
• In many things he certainly refrained from oppressing them.
• It would render the oppressing class more powerful to injure, the oppressed quicker to perceive and keener to resent the injury, without proportionate power of defense.
• But the worry oppressing her just now was concerned also with Mary Selincourt.
• We did the oppressing ourselves, and because people in our station had done the same thing for hundreds of years we never stopped to think that it was wrong.
• It is beyond a doubt that this doctrine served to keep the majority from oppressing the minority whatever may have been its name.
• Whether this was so or not, those officially in the service of the two powers soon grew as zealous in oppressing one another as in oppressing men of different nationalities.
• Their savage ferocity toward each other when their passions are up, is the natural result of their habit of daily plundering and oppressing the slave.
• A dishonest and inhuman agent has in his own hands the irresponsible power of harassing and oppressing the tenantry under him.
• She could neither move nor cry out for a moment, but she sat like one turned into stone with that sense of suffocation oppressing her, and that horrible pain in her heart.
• But it was, after all, for Denis to effect that severing, to cut himself loose from that oppressing and impossible weight.
• Meanwhile the barons carried on their feuds one against the other, and all alike joined in oppressing the townsmen.
• Attempted purification by oppressing the body is only wasted effort.
• Bean known what it was to be free from the oppressing spectre of want.
• And thus they are robbing us of all our gold as well as of the necessities of life, using the fair name of trade, but in fact oppressing us as thoroughly as they possibly can.
• It was sickening, and shortly after, when the troop train pulled out for Chiquito, the sense of loneliness was oppressing.
• It is not all at once that Farmhill has become a sort of dreary edition of Castle Rackrent, oppressing the mind with almost inexpressible gloom.
• A heavy depression hung upon my spirits, and I went out desperately in the rain to shake my mind free of oppressing influences by dint of hard bodily exercise.
• Ministers had preferred the plan of altering the import duties, as now proposed, for the purpose of relieving instead of oppressing the people.
• Many years after that we find its Spanish settlers oppressing all the English that fell into their hands.
• She felt herself alone in a strange land, with a great grief and a terrible secret oppressing her.
• Phebe could not dwell amid the crowds of London with such a thought oppressing her.
• It was as if the shadow of the great shock awaiting him had already fallen upon him, oppressing him with a weight he could not well shake off.
• He regarded the British Empire as one of the two great dominions the shadow of which was oppressing the world in the middle of the nineteenth century, the other being Russia.
• The deadliest of the evils which are oppressing the community to-day come under this category.
• But a new fear was oppressing him, weighing him down.
• And my eye cannot distinguish this newcomer who is oppressing me.
• They are, in fact, nothing more than a sign that the vital powers have been relieved by removing something that was oppressing them.
• At once, like an overpowering personality, the East rose up to greet us, oppressing us with its merciless Egyptian sun and its pungent smell of dark humanity.
• The flood of his suffering rose darkly, oppressing his heart, choking his breath.
• That, when the choice is well made, it strengthens, instead of oppressing our intellect.
• Grandmoulin speaks a falsehood of perhaps not less importance in his assertion that the English are oppressing us.

Similar words containing OPPRESS without suffix ing

oppress11 oppressed14 oppresses13 oppressor13 oppression14 oppressive17 oppressors14 oppressions15 oppressingly20 oppressively22 unoppressive19 oppressiveness21 oppressivenesse22 oppressivenesses23

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