• Synonyms: oppression, subjugation
  Meaning: the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"

• The oppression was still on my spirits.
• Oppression, moreover, varies but little in its methods.
• Erech was thus freed from the oppression of its fierce enemy.
• This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole evening.
• Pan lives, not as a God, but as the All, Nature, now that the oppression of the Supernatural is removed.
• Then his chest heaved, and he drew a long breath, like a man who feels almost stifled by some internal oppression.
• John was a man small of stature, dark, with homely features, but he was very determined to get away from oppression.
• He bore up bravely against it; but hard was the struggle between might and right, oppression and staunch resistance.
• All were happy--the nightmare of unjust dealings, of Norman oppression, of laws for the poor and none for the rich, was ended.
• It was prior to her coming into the possession of Moore that Aunt Hannah had been made to drink the bitter waters of oppression.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Kindred (novel), License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Eastern Bloc, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Eureka Rebellion, License CC BY-SA 4.0