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Grate :: Grate (v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity..

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

Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands..

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..

Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Tribune :: Tribune (n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls..

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

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..

Patience :: Patience (n.) The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc..

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..

Protector :: Protector (n.) One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron..

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

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

Nonresistance :: Nonresistance (n.) The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition..

Oppressure :: Oppressure (n.) Oppression.

Rod :: Rod (n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression..

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

Aggrievance :: Aggrievance (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

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

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