Oppress

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Καταδυναστεύω (Strong'S #2616 — Verb — katadunasteuo — kat-ad-oo-nas-tyoo'-o )

"to exercise power over" (kata, "down," dunastes, "a potentate;" dunamai, "to have power"), "to oppress," is used, in the Passive Voice, in  Acts 10:38; in the Active, in  James 2:6 .

2: Καταπονέω (Strong'S #2669 — Verb — kataponeo — kat-ap-on-eh'-o )

see Distress , B, No. 4.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To ravish; to violate.

(2): ( v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.

(3): ( v. t.) To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.

(4): ( v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

King James Dictionary

Oppress', L appressus, from opprimo ob and premo, to press.

1. To load or burden with unreasonable impositions to treat with unjust severity, rigor or hardship as, to oppress a nation with taxes or contributions to oppress one by compelling him to perform unreasonable service. 2. To overpower to overburden as, to be oppressed with grief. 3. to sit or lie heavy on as, excess of good oppresses the stomach.