Oppress

1. 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.
2. v. t. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
3. v. t. To ravish; to violate.
4. v. t. To put down; to crush out; to suppress.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.