OPPRESSION
\əpɹˈɛʃən], \əpɹˈɛʃən], \ə_p_ɹ_ˈɛ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of OPPRESSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
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That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
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A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
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Ravishment; rape.
By Oddity Software
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The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
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That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
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A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
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Ravishment; rape.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Act of oppressing: severity: cruelty: state of being oppressed: misery: hardship: injustice: dullness.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A state, in which the patient experiences a sensation of weight in the part affected. When employed abstractedly, it means, particularly, Oppression of the chest-Oppressio Pectoris, (F.) O. de Poitrine.
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Is also, used for that condition, at the commencement of fevers, &c., in which the system is oppressed rather than debilitated, and where the vascular action rises, as the obstruction to free circulation is relieved by bleeding, purging, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
