Oppresses
[ə'presiz]
Examples
- It neither favours the great, nor oppresses the smaller dealer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It oppresses me yet, to think of it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But he is generally melancholy and despairing; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Give me your confidence, Jane, he said: relieve your mind of any weight that oppresses it, by imparting it to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Cecilia