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Exacting :: Exacting (a.) Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.

Gripingly :: Gripingly (adv.) In a griping or oppressive manner.

Sirocco :: Sirocco (n.) An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily..

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

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

High-handed :: High-handed (a.) Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act..

Light :: Light (superl.) Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment..

Sum :: Sultry (superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air..

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

Solano :: Solano () A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain..

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..

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

Tyrannize :: Tyrannize (v. i.) To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices..

Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms..

Burdensome :: Burdensome (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

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

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..

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

Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc..

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

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