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despot | oppress |

As a noun despot

is despot.

As a verb oppress is

(obsolete) physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

despot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
  • (label) A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)

    • Derived terms

    * despotate * despotism

    Anagrams

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    References

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    oppress

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
  • * , II.x:
    • Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
  • To keep down by force
    • The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
  • To make sad or gloomy
    • We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.

    Related terms

    * oppression

    External links

    * * English transitive verbs