oppression

oppression

Traitement cruel ou injuste qui maintient des personnes sous le pouvoir de quelqu’un d’autre.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : persecution, tyranny, repression

Contraires : freedom, liberation

Expressions courantes : political oppression, resist oppression, escape oppression, state oppression

oppression, accablement

Sensation désagréable de lourdeur, de tristesse ou de pression dans l’esprit ou le corps.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : heaviness, gloom

Contraires : relief

Expressions courantes : sense of oppression, oppression in something