Oppress vs Inhibit - What's the difference?
oppress | inhibit |
(obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
* , II.x:
To keep down by force
To make sad or gloomy
As verbs the difference between oppress and inhibit
is that oppress is (obsolete) physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush while inhibit is to hinder; to restrain.oppress
English
Verb
(es)- Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
- The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
- We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.