oppress

• vt.圧迫する、......を落ち込ませる、......を悩ませる、......を重くする。

op-,on,強調する,押す,押し付ける,強要する。oppress, oppressから派生した。

oppress

oppress: see press

oppress (v.)

mid-14c., from Old French opresser "oppress, afflict; torment, smother" (13c.), from Medieval Latin oppressare, frequentative of Latin opprimere "press against, press together, press down;" figuratively "crush, put down, subdue, prosecute relentlessly" (in Late Latin "to rape"), from ob "against" (see ob-) + premere "to press, push" (see press (v.1)).

It is the due [external] restraint and not the moderation of rulers that constitutes a state of liberty; as the power to oppress, though never exercised, does a state of slavery. [St. George Tucker, "View of the Constitution of the United States," 1803]

Related: Oppressed; oppressing.

1. He states uncompromisingly that he is opposed to any practices which oppress animals.

彼は動物虐待に反対することを断固として表明した。

2.The imperialists exploit and oppress all the peoples of the world.

帝国主義者は全世界の人々を搾取し、抑圧する。

3.A good ruler will not oppress the poor.

良い支配者は貧民を圧迫しない。

4.This a dream in which things are all loose and they oppress .

夢の中で、すべてのことがルーズで、私を押しているが、これは夢にすぎない。

5.They crush your people,O LORD ; they oppress your inheritance.

エホバよ、彼らはあなたの民を強圧し、あなたの産業を苦しめます。