Oppressor

Definition

oppress /ǝ'pres / v (esp passive) ၁။ ဖိႏိွပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္သည္။ The people are oppressed by a ruthless military dictator. ၂။ ဖိစီးသည္။ oppressed by worry/poverty/work ❍ The heat oppressed him and made him ill. ❏ oppressed adj အဖိႏိွပ္ခံ။ အခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ခံ။ an oppressed people/group/class. ❏ the oppressed n [pl v ] အဖိႏိွပ္ခံ၊ အခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ခံ (လူထု၊ လူတန္းစား)။ the oppressed of the world. ❏ oppression /ǝ'preʃn / n [U] ဖိႏိွပ္မႈ။ ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္မႈ။ a tyrant's oppression of his people ❍ victims of oppression. ❏ oppressive /ǝ'presÇv / adj ၁။ ဖိႏိွပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ေသာ။ oppressive laws/rules/measures. ၂။ ၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာ။ ဆိုးရြားေသာ။ စိတ္ေလးဖြယ္ရာ။ oppressive weather ❍ He found the silent house oppressive. ❏ oppressively adv သည္းမခံႏိုင္ေအာင္။ oppressively hot. ❏ oppressor n ဖိႏိွပ္သူ။ ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္သူ။ suffer at the hands of an oppressor.

Examples

1. Trade unionists had been ruthlessly oppressed during the dictatorship.