FreeScrabbleDictionary

oppress

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/əˈpɹɛs/

Definition of oppress

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To keep down by unjust force.
    “The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.”
See all 5 definitions

verb

  1. (transitive)To keep down by unjust force.
    “The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.”
  2. (transitive)To make sad or gloomy.
    “We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.”
  3. (obsolete, transitive)Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
    “Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse, / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.”
  4. (obsolete, transitive)To sexually violate; to rape.

noun

  1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Oppression.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English oppressen, from Old French oppresser, from Medieval Latin oppressare (“to press against, oppress”), frequentative of Latin opprimere, past participle oppressus (“to press against, press together, oppress”), from ob (“against”) + premere, past participle pressus (“to press”); see press.

Anagrams of oppress

2 plays · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from oppress

80 playable · top: PREOPS (10 pts)

Best play preops 10 points

6-letter words

3 words

5-letter words

20 words

4-letter words

26 words

3-letter words

20 words

2-letter words

10 words

Find your best play with oppress

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes oppress, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.

Find more plays Browse word lists