Misusage and Oppression

noun

• The act of subjugating by cruelty.
  • usage: "the tyrant's oppression of the people"
  • synonyms: subjugation
• (n.) ()
• A feeling of being oppressed.
  • synonyms: oppressiveness

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