Crossword-Solution: OPPRESSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oppression | n. | The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. |
| Oppression | n. | That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. |
| Oppression | n. | A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. |
| Oppression | n. | Ravishment; rape. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “OPPRESSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BLACK covering | 6 answers |
| A FEELING OF BEING OPPRESSED | 11 answers |
| tyranny | 19 answers |
| Dejection | 58 answers |
| Weight | 70 answers |
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Sentences with OPPRESSION (5)
The Puritan Fathers came to America to escape religious oppression and to establish what they believed would be the Kingdom of God.
What Machiavelli beheld round him in Italy was a civic disorder in which there was oppression without statecraft, and revolt without patriotism.
But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.
Your Grace’ll take the shuck bed yourself.” Jim and me was in a sweat again for a minute, being afraid there was going to be some more trouble amongst them; so we was pretty glad when the duke says: “’Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression.
Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression.
Quotes with OPPRESSION (3)
In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which is always in a privileged position, the lumpen-proletariat of the shanty towns - all fall into line with the stand made by the rural masses, that veritable reservoir of a national revolutionary army; for in those countries where colonialism has deliberately held up development, the peasantry, when it rises, quickly stands out as the …
To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.