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Publican :: Publican (n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation..

Nonresistant :: Nonresistant (n.) One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force..

Squeeze :: Squeeze (v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush..

Free :: Free (a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences..

Griper :: Griper (a.) One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.

Aggrieve :: Aggrieve (v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved..

Swelter :: Swelter (v. t.) To oppress with heat.

Beneath :: Beneath (prep.) Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens..

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs..

Prostration :: Prostration (n.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor..

Ease :: Ease (n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.

Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.

Heaviness :: Heaviness (n.) The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Load :: Load (v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care..

Toil :: Toil (v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body..

Extortionate :: Extortionate (a.) Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed..

Awful :: Awful (a.) Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene..

Pressive :: Pressive (a.) Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation..

Press :: Press (v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.

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