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oppress
English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
- Hyphenation: op?press
Verb
oppress (third-person singular simple present oppresses, present participle oppressing, simple past and past participle oppressed)
- (transitive) To keep down by unjust force.
- (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.
- (transitive, obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
Conjugation
Related terms
- oppression
- oppressive
Translations
Further reading
- oppress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- oppress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- porpess, soppers
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torment
English
Etymology
From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /?t??(?)m?nt/
- (verb) IPA(key): /t??(?)?m?nt/
Noun
torment (countable and uncountable, plural torments)
- (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
- He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.
- They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:pain
Derived terms
- tormentous
Translations
Verb
torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past and past participle tormented)
- (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
- The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:
- Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.
Derived terms
- tormentor
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment (plural torments)
- torment (suffering, pain)
Descendants
- English: torment
Middle French
Alternative forms
- tourment
Etymology
From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (plural torments)
- torment; suffering; anguish
Old French
Alternative forms
- turment
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (oblique plural tormenz or tormentz, nominative singular tormenz or tormentz, nominative plural torment)
- torture
- (figuratively, by extension) suffering; torment
Descendants
- Middle English: torment (borrowing)
- English: torment
- Middle French: torment, tourment
- French: tourment
References
- “tourment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (nominative singular torments)
- suffering; torment
Descendants
- Catalan: turment
- Occitan: torment
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