English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "onderdrukte" is om iemand te onderwerp aan onregverdige of wrede behandeling, beheer of gesag, veral deur die gebruik van mag. Dit kan ook beteken om iemand se verstand of gees te belas of swaar te weeg. Onderdrukking behels dikwels die gebruik van geweld of dwang om individue of groepe te domineer en uit te buit wat as swakker of minder magtig beskou word. Voorbeelde van onderdrukking kan politieke, ekonomiese of sosiale stelsels insluit wat die regte en geleenthede van sekere individue of groepe beperk op grond van faktore soos ras, geslag, godsdiens of sosio-ekonomiese status.

Synonyms

  1. laden

Sentence Examples

  1. He oppressed the weak, but he respected the strong.
  2. It was noon, and Monte Cristo had set apart one hour to be passed in the apartments of Haydée, as though his oppressed spirit could not all at once admit the feeling of pure and unmixed joy, but required a gradual succession of calm and gentle emotions to prepare his mind to receive full and perfect happiness, in the same manner as ordinary natures demand to be inured by degrees to the reception of strong or violent sensations.
  3. I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations.
  4. On the present occasion, the aged warrior whose privilege it was to speak, was silent, seemingly oppressed with the magnitude of his subject.
  5. The representative of the bear had certainly been an entire stranger to the delicious emotions of the lover while his arms encircled his mistress and he was, perhaps, a stranger also to the nature of that feeling of ingenuous shame that oppressed the trembling Alice.
  6. I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, but once, and that was a few weeks after I came to the woods, when, for an hour, I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.
  7. Then, breathless, pale, his brow covered with sweat, Aramis listened, his breast oppressed, his heart ready to break.
  8. Two such heavy deaths falling upon the captain, so closely after the death of Porthos, for a long time oppressed that spirit which had hitherto been so indefatigable and invulnerable.
  9. Its limits were the walls of the lair but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.
  10. Each step he trod oppressed his heart with fresh emotion his first and most indelible recollections were there not a tree, not a street, that he passed but seemed filled with dear and cherished memories.