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Angor :: Angor (n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression..

Surfeit :: Surfeit (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..

Overcharge :: Overcharge (v. t.) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.

Harrow :: Harrow (v. t.) To pillage; to harry; to oppress.

Priest-ridden :: Priest-ridden (a.) Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people..

Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

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

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion..

Redress :: Redress (v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

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

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

Quit :: Quit (a.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate..

Load :: Load (v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon..

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

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

Right :: Right (a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate..

Tyrannize :: Tyrannize (v. t.) To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress..

Sweat :: Sweat (v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers..

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