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- Oppressive - a. - Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
- Oppressive - a. - Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.
- Oppressive - a. - Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
- Oppressive - a. - Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
- Light - superl. - Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment.
- Inoppressive - a. - Not oppressive or burdensome.
- Oppressive - a. - Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.
- Relief - n. - The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
- Rapacity - n. - The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
- Solano - - A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain.
- Publican - n. - A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
- Tyrannize - v. i. - To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.
- Incubus - n. - Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.
- Sufferance - n. - Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.
- Gripingly - adv. - In a griping or oppressive manner.
- Cumber - v. t. - To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
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- H2929 טַלְמוֹן - 2929 טַלְמוֹן - טַלְמוֹן - - Ṭalmôwn - tal-mone' - from the same as חָרְגֹּל; oppressive; Talmon, a temple doorkeeper; Talmon. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H6216 עָשׁוֹק - 6216 עָשׁוֹק - עָשׁוֹק - - ʻâshôwq - aw-shoke' - from עָשַׁק; oppressive (as noun, a tyrant); oppressor. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G1419 δυσβάστακτος - 1419 δυσβάστακτος - ΔΥΣΒΆΣΤΑΚΤΟΣ - - dysbástaktos - doos-bas'-tak-tos - from δυσ- and a derivative of βαστάζω; oppressive:--grievous to be borne. - Adjective - greek