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Meaning of oppression

- The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
- That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
- A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
- Ravishment; rape.