keep under
tyrannize
oppressingly
crush
downtread
grind
downpressor
repressive
thrutch
squeeze
downpress
downtrod
aburden
overrun
underkeep
embarrass
beratement
work over
oppression
tribulate
haze
turn off
primping
bearbait
suppressal
persecutingly
burdener
strangle
compulse
pine
throng
repeal
press
instigate
throttle down
weigh
tank
coadd
put to shame
slow-walk
trounce
clog
mortify
spite
adpositionally
harrow
nether
cocker up
disperse
skeeve out
rack
prephilatelic
oppressed
comport
hag
strike
bestand
weight
bedevil
walk Spanish
hector
repressed
romp
squash
choke back
roust
fight back
tekan
exenterate
muzzle
fetter
repressional
martyr
cut someone's comb
oppressiveness
push about
analcitic
condescend
push around
smite
confound
despective
tread
weigh on
compelling
weigh down
yoke
misempower
Pétainist
have someone's hide
-able
eversive
preposition
repressionism
speech
philologically
malicious
punishingly
repressive
prephilatelic
oppressed
repressed
repressional
analcitic
despective
eversive
malicious
oppressingly
persecutingly
adpositionally
philologically
punishingly
downpressor
beratement
oppression
primping
suppressal
burdener
oppressiveness
compelling
yoke
Pétainist
preposition
repressionism
keep under
tyrannize
crush
downtread
grind
thrutch
squeeze
downpress
downtrod
aburden
overrun
underkeep
embarrass
work over
tribulate
haze
turn off
bearbait
strangle
compulse
pine
throng
repeal
press
instigate
throttle down
weigh
tank
coadd
put to shame
slow-walk
trounce
clog
mortify
spite
harrow
nether
cocker up
disperse
skeeve out
rack
comport
hag
strike
bestand
weight
bedevil
walk Spanish
hector
romp
squash
choke back
roust
fight back
tekan
exenterate
muzzle
fetter
martyr
cut someone's comb
push about
condescend
push around
smite
confound
tread
weigh on
weigh down
misempower
have someone's hide
speech
verb
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
noun
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A group or gang.
- A crowd control barrier.
- The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- A violent crowding.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
verb
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
noun
verb
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- To fit into a tight place.
noun
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
verb
- To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- To run past; to run beyond.
- To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- To continue for too long.
- To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- To run past the end of.
- To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
noun
noun
verb
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
noun
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
verb
- To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).
- To leave a road; to exit.
- To become deactivated; to become powered down.
- To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
- To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
verb
- to be oppressive or burdensome
- exert pressure or force to or upon
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
- squeeze or press together
- crowd closely
- create by pressing
- be urgent
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- press from a plastic
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
- press and smooth with a heated iron
- lift weights
- ask for or request earnestly
noun
- the state of demanding notice or attention
- the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
- a machine used for printing
- a dense crowd of people
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
- any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
verb
- To stand; to tolerate.
- To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
noun
- A prison cell, or prison generally.
- A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
- A reservoir or dam.
verb
- To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
- To pass across or over; to traverse.
- To travel quickly over a long distance.
- To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- To beat severely; to thrash.
noun
verb
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- To perform a clog dance.
noun
verb
- To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adj
adv
noun
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
noun
- An evil woman.
- A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
- A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- Sleep paralysis.
- A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- An ugly old woman.
- A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
verb
- To impinge upon.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To load, burden or oppress someone.
- To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- To bias something; to slant.
- To assign weights to individual statistics.
- To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
noun
- viscosity rating.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- Pressure; burden.
- Importance or influence.
- An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
- The smallest cardinality of a base.
- A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
- The thickness and opacity of paint.
- Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- Weight class
- Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- The illusion of mass.
verb
- To suppress; to force into submission.
- To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
noun
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
- Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
verb
- To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
- To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
- To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
noun
- The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
- The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
- A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
- A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
- A person's mouth.
verb
- To persecute.
- To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- To torment; to torture.
noun
- One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
- One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
verb
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- To stun or amaze.
- To make something worse.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- To perplex or puzzle.
noun
verb
- To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
- To beat or press with the feet.
- To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- To step or walk upon.
- To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To copulate with.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
noun
- A step taken with the foot.
- The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
- The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
- The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
- The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- A manner of stepping.
- The sound made when someone or something is walking.
noun
- From sense 1.3.1: something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- A chap, a fellow.
- A similar device used as a game controller.
- Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- From sense 1.1: a bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
verb
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
noun
- An adposition.
- Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
verb
verb
noun
- The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
- The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
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