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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oppressed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
group
▪ The potential for other oppressed groups to be autonomously organized also put pressure on the Union to question its structures and attitudes.
▪ The 1960s and 1970s had seen the emergence of a number of social movements among oppressed groups.
▪ It means that women should seize communication power for their own emancipation and the liberation of all oppressed groups.
▪ The same can be said for working-class, black and other oppressed groups.
▪ Mannheim argues that such ideologies are usually found in oppressed groups whose members want radical change.
people
▪ Gerry: It's really strange how the special interest groups of oppressed people came into existence.
▪ A new response is growing from women theologians and from radicals seeking liberation for many oppressed people.
▪ For 30 years, Niyogi fought for the social and economic improvement of oppressed people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gerry: It's really strange how the special interest groups of oppressed people came into existence.
▪ He's an oppressed worker doing a horrible job.
▪ It is usually associated with oppressed minorities.
▪ It means that women should seize communication power for their own emancipation and the liberation of all oppressed groups.
▪ Mannheim argues that such ideologies are usually found in oppressed groups whose members want radical change.
▪ She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years.
▪ The potential for other oppressed groups to be autonomously organized also put pressure on the Union to question its structures and attitudes.
▪ They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
oppressed

oppressed \oppressed\ adj. having excessive or unfair burdens imposed.

Syn: downtrodden, persecuted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oppressed

late 14c., past participle adjective from oppress.

Wiktionary
oppressed

  1. Subject to oppression. v

  2. (en-past of: oppress)

WordNet
oppressed

adj. burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure" [syn: laden]

Usage examples of "oppressed".

Distracted with the care, not of acquiring, but of preserving an empire, oppressed with age and infirmities, careless of fame, and satiated with power, all his prospects of life were closed.

The most wealthy families ruined by partial fines and confiscations, and the great body of his subjects oppressed by ingenious and aggravated taxes.

Such were the arts of war, by which the Roman emperors defended their extensive conquests, and preserved a military spirit, at a time when every other virtue was oppressed by luxury and despotism.

The provinces, long oppressed by the ministers of the republic, sighed for the government of a single person, who would be the master, not the accomplice, of those petty tyrants.

They were instituted to defend the oppressed, to pardon offences, to arraign the enemies of the people, and, when they judged it necessary, to stop, by a single word, the whole machine of government.

Such was the fate of the son of Marcus, and so easy was it to destroy a hated tyrant, who, by the artificial powers of government, had oppressed, during thirteen years, so many millions of subjects, each of whom was equal to their master in personal strength and personal abilities.

The fame of the Roman arms was revived by that warlike and successful emperor, and he boasted, with a just pride, that, having received the empire oppressed with foreign and domestic wars, he left it established in profound, universal, and honorable peace.

By the artful conspiracy of these wretches, an impenetrable veil was drawn between an innocent prince and his oppressed subjects, the virtuous disposition of Gordian was deceived, and the honors of the empire sold without his knowledge, though in a very public manner, to the most worthless of mankind.

He soon discovered that it was impossible to replace that greatness on a permanent basis, without restoring public virtue, ancient principles and manners, and the oppressed majesty of the laws.

That worthless minister rendered his master formidable only to the oppressed subjects, and contemptible to the enemies of Rome.

The majesty of Rome, oppressed by a Persian, was protected by a Syrian or Arab of Palmyra.

Under the deplorable reigns of Valerian and Gallienus, the empire was oppressed and almost destroyed by the soldiers, the tyrants, and the barbarians.

The legions at first gave way, oppressed by numbers, and dismayed by misfortunes.

But the most important service which Probus rendered to the republic was the deliverance of Gaul, and the recovery of seventy flourishing cities oppressed by the barbarians of Germany, who, since the death of Aurelian, had ravaged that great province with impunity.

It was very natural for the plebeians, oppressed by debt, or apprehensive of injuries, to implore the protection of some powerful chief, who acquired over their persons and property the same absolute right as, among the Greeks and Romans, a master exercised over his slaves.