oppression

Unterdrückung

Grausame oder ungerechte Behandlung, durch die Menschen unter der Macht anderer gehalten werden.

In einfachem Englisch: Cruel or unfair treatment that keeps people under someone else's power.

• They fought against oppression.
• Many families fled years of political oppression.
• The novel describes a community living under oppression.

Synonyme: persecution, tyranny, repression

Gegenteile: freedom, liberation

Häufige Wendungen: political oppression, resist oppression, escape oppression, state oppression

Beklemmung, Bedrückung

Ein unangenehmes Gefühl von Schwere, Traurigkeit oder Druck im Körper oder in der Seele.

In einfachem Englisch: An unpleasant feeling of heaviness, sadness, or pressure in your mind or body.

• She felt a strange oppression in her chest.
• The dark room filled him with a sense of oppression.
• A walk in the sunshine eased her oppression.

Synonyme: heaviness, gloom

Gegenteile: relief

Häufige Wendungen: sense of oppression, oppression in something