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

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

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right..

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..

Waid :: Waid (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Throng :: Throng (v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings..

Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.

Screw :: Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.

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

Grind :: Grind (v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.

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

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

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..

Surfeit :: Surfeit (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking..

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

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..

Exclaim :: Exclaim (v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; The field is won! he exclaimed..

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

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

Incubus :: Incubus (n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.

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