oppression

opresión

Trato cruel o injusto que mantiene a las personas bajo el poder de otra persona.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: persecution, tyranny, repression

Antónimos: freedom, liberation

Expresiones frecuentes: political oppression, resist oppression, escape oppression, state oppression

opresión, agobio

Sensación desagradable de pesadez, tristeza o presión en la mente o el cuerpo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: heaviness, gloom

Antónimos: relief

Expresiones frecuentes: sense of oppression, oppression in something