Crossword-Solution: OPPRESSES
We have 5 clues for the answer “OPPRESSES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Acts the tyrant | 1 answer |
| Keeps down | 1 answer |
| Puts under the yoke | 1 answer |
| Persecutes. | 4 answers |
| A CRUELLY RAPACIOUS PERSON | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OPPRESSES (5)
But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her Temperance over Appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with Surfet, and soon turns Wisdom to Folly, as Nourishment to Winde.
You are now the head of the family, Stephen; and I feel bound, in the position which oppresses me, to leave you to decide what ought to be done.' With those introductory words, he told his brother how the Countess's play had come into his hands.
The skies are bluer since you came, the beauty of this world we live in oppresses me with a fearful joy, and in my heart there is always the thought of you and such yearning as I may not word.
There is a strange heaviness in the air--I say heaviness for want of a better word; I mean that it oppresses us both.
Men hold me for nought; this thought is the worst of all that oppresses my sorrowing heart." Thrand said: "Why, you still seem as full of vigour as ever you were.
Quotes with OPPRESSES (3)
We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow--the surest antidote for despair? It may be a rough comforter: it may seem hard to be harassed with the cares of life when we have no relish for its enjoyments; to be goaded to labor when the heart is ready to break, and the vexed spirit implores for …
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2011–2016).