• v.
    ⦿come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
    lexical concept
  • The government oppresses political activists

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:crush
  2. enl:oppress
  3. enl:suppress
wn:interlingual indexili:i33857

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • oppress
  • crushoppresssuppress