OPPRESS

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oppress verb tranzitiv

1. a asupri; a oprima, a apăsa, a împila.

2. (fig.), a apăsa, a copleşi; a deprima;

oppress by / with sorrows copleşit de necazuri.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

White Fang knew the law well: _to oppress the weak and obey the strong_.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

But after the amusement came the reaction, and he was oppressed by his loneliness.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Elinor, for some time after he left her, for some time even after the sound of his carriage had died away, remained too much oppressed by a crowd of ideas, widely differing in themselves, but of which sadness was the general result, to think even of her sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She was quite oppressed.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

The nights were too dark for the ladies to meet again till the morrow, but Captain Harville had promised them a visit in the evening; and he came, bringing his friend also, which was more than had been expected, it having been agreed that Captain Benwick had all the appearance of being oppressed by the presence of so many strangers.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It would please and benefit me to have five thousand pounds; it would torment and oppress me to have twenty thousand; which, moreover, could never be mine in justice, though it might in law.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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