oppress

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Behold yon mountain's hoary height Made higher with new mounts of snow:Again behold the winter's weight Oppress the labouring woods below'And streams with icy fetters boundBenumbed and cramped to solid ground.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

Oppress, o-pres′, v.t. to press against or upon: to use severely: to burden: to lie heavy upon: to constrain: to overpower: to treat unjustly: to load with heavy burdens.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Unconquered Fate and stern necessity Oppress the feeble slaves of Death: Unable to avert their injuries, The common herd endure them patiently.

From The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Townsend, Frederick

These strifes, these tumults of the noisy world, Where Fraud, the coward, tracks his prey by stealth, And Strength, the ruffian, glories in his guilt, Oppress the heart with sadness.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

These blank walls Oppress me with their weight!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth