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2. To ravish; to violate. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

3. To put down; to crush out; to
suppress. [Obs.]

The mutiny he there hastes to
oppress.

4. 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.

Op*pres"sion (?), n. [F., fr. L.
oppressio.]

1. The act of oppressing, or state of being
oppressed.

2. That which oppresses; a hardship or
injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of
oppressions." Job xxxv. 9.

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

There gentlee Sleep

First found me, and with soft oppression seized

My drowsed sense.

4. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.


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