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oppression
English
Etymology
From Middle English oppression, from Old French oppression, from Latin oppressi? (“a pressing down, violence, oppression”), from opprim?; see oppress.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p????n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation: op?pres?sion
Noun
oppression (countable and uncountable, plural oppressions)
- The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
- The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
- A feeling of being oppressed.
Related terms
- oppress
Translations
Further reading
- oppression in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- oppression in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Latin oppressi?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.p??.sj??/
Noun
oppression f (plural oppressions)
- oppression
- (Louisiana) asthma
Further reading
- “oppression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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distress
English
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiare, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringere (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).
The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??st??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
distress (countable and uncountable, plural distresses)
- (Cause of) discomfort.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
- Serious danger.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
- (medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.
- The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.
Derived terms
- distress signal
Antonyms
- (maladaptive stress): eustress
Related terms
- distrain
- district
Translations
Verb
distress (third-person singular simple present distresses, present participle distressing, simple past and past participle distressed)
- To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- Synonyms: anguish, harrow, trouble, vex, torment, tantalize, tantalise, martyr
- (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
- Synonym: distrain
- To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
- Synonyms: age, antique, patinate
Translations
Further reading
- distress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- distress at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- disserts
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