Clues for the word "OPPRESS"
We've had 36 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 67 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on November 20, 2025.
Definition of oppress
- v. t. - To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
- v. t. - To ravish; to violate.
- v. t. - To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
- v. t. - 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.
Referring Clues
- Give a hard time
- Tyrannize
- Persecute
- Lie heavily upon
- Crush
- Make downtrodden
- Keep down
- Treat badly
- Put under the yoke
- Subjugate
- Weigh heavily upon
- Rule harshly
- Govern tyrannically
- Dominate harshly
- Weigh heavily on
- Weighed heavily upon
- Lungfish "___ Yourself"
- Pop singers reformed, giving up gin fizz for crush
- Tyrannise work force
- Bear down hard on
- Treat cruelly journalists at work
- Clamp down on workforce
- Overwhelm with paperwork
- Subjugate by force
- Ride roughshod over workforce
- Rule despotically
- Govern harshly or subjugate
- Govern harshly
- Subdue work by journalists
- Crush, subjugate
- Overwhelm with inverted ironwork?
- Weigh down with work at mill
- Burden quietly accepted by old journalists
- Don't try to do this to Ben Harper
- Terrifying woman's repeated power to knock out a grand bully
- Burden
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - November 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 20, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 22, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 22, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 20, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 05, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 24, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 23, 2023
- Your Life Choices - June 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 21, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - February 23, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 26, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - January 30, 2018
- Your Life Choices - December 20, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - December 17, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - December 03, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - November 23, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - October 23, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - September 11, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - March 31, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 19, 2016
- Rock n Roll Crossword - October 23, 2016
- And in 37 more crossword puzzles...