oppressed

oppressed
    adj 1: burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief";
           "oppressed by a sense of failure" [syn: {laden},
           {oppressed}]
    

oppressed \oppressed\ adj.
   having excessive or unfair burdens imposed.

   Syn: downtrodden, persecuted.
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Oppress \Op*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Oppressed}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Oppressing}.] [F. oppresser, LL. oppressare, fr. L.
   oppressus, p. p. of opprimere; ob (see {Ob-}) + premere to
   press. See {Press}.]
   1. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to
      treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. --Wyclif.
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            For thee, oppress[`e]d king, am I cast down. --Shak.
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            Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress
            Thy chosen!                           --Milton.
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   2. To ravish; to violate. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   3. To put down; to crush out; to suppress. [Obs.]
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            The mutiny he there hastes to oppress. --Shak.
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   4. To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the
      body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess
      of food oppresses the stomach.
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "oppressed":
      abused, bond, browbeaten, burdened, captive, charged, cumbered,
      disenfranchised, downtrod, downtrodden, encumbered, enslaved,
      enthralled, fraught, freighted, ground down, hampered, heavy,
      heavyhearted, henpecked, in bondage, in bonds, in captivity,
      in chains, in leading strings, in slavery, in subjection, laden,
      laden with sorrow, loaded, long-faced, misused, ordered around,
      overborne, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted,
      overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, regimented, sad,
      sad of heart, sad-eyed, sad-faced, saddened, saddled, sadhearted,
      servile, slavish, subjected, subjugated, submissive, suppressed,
      taxed, trampled, tyrannized, under the heel, under the lash,
      unfree, unmanned, weighed upon, weighted, weighted down