See oppressive on Wiktionary
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"text": "It had been one of those unnaturally still and oppressive days when scarcely a leaf quivers, and every breath of air seems charged with electricity. Suddenly the thunder began to growl. Before many minutes eveiy pine-needle was shaking with a fierce chill wind, and a torrent of rain swept down the valley and drenched us through to the skin.",
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{
"ref": "1895, The Hartford Seminary Record 1895-02: Volume 5, Issue 3, page 163:",
"text": "He defines it as belief in exalted spiritual powers by whose help human weakness is supplemented in its struggle with the oppressive forces of the natural world.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1912, Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean, Macmillan and Company, page 440:",
"text": "Mr. Wardlaw had left the castle: so also had Charlotte, by her own wish, her residence there having been found too oppressive to herself to be continued for the present.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1914, Havelock Ellis, Man and Woman, The Macmillan Company,, page 158:",
"text": "The possibility that women are not very sensitive to odours is often suggested to men by the perfumes of oppressive strength which women frequently use.",
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"word": "humid"
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{
"word": "close"
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"sense": "burdensome or difficult to bear",
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"word": "oppressif"
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"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
"word": "oppressiv"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
"word": "unterdrückend"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
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"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
"word": "opressivo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
"word": "opressor"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
"word": "oprimente"
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"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
"word": "mapang-api"
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "tyrannical or exercising unjust power",
"word": "áp chế"
},
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"sense": "overpowering or overwhelming",
"word": "потискащ"
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"sense": "overpowering or overwhelming",
"word": "tukahduttava"
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"sense": "overpowering or overwhelming",
"word": "oppressant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"word": "drückend"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "overpowering or overwhelming",
"word": "haitutu"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "spjakótny",
"sense": "weather: hot and humid",
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"word": "спяко́тны"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "weather: hot and humid",
"word": "painostava"
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"code": "mi",
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