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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..

Anxiety :: Anxiety (n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium..

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..

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

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..

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

Low :: Low (adv.) In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice..

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

Oppressure :: Oppressure (n.) Oppression.

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Squeezing :: Squeezing (n.) The act of pressing; compression; oppression.

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

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