"downtrod" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1935, The Cotton Oil Press, Vol.19, Digitized edition, published 2009, page 36:",
          "text": "And I don't know of any manufacturer or any industry that wants to downtrod the farmer.",
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        {
          "ref": "1967, The AOPA pilot: Volume 10, Part 1 (Aeronautics), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, page 64:",
          "text": "I've heard wicked rumors that FAA and wives try to downtrod small aircraft pilots.",
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          "ref": "2009 July 11, JF, comment, “Top House Republican slams Obama over stimulus, jobs”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2012-02-17:",
          "text": "And having an entire group of people constantly waiting in the wings to downtrod even the slightest POSITIVE moves does not help matters.",
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        "to oppress, suppress, exploit, persecute, step down on; put down; denigrate, subjugate"
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        "(US) to oppress, suppress, exploit, persecute, step down on; put down; denigrate, subjugate"
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  "etymology_text": "From down- + trod.",
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          "ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "I will lift the downtrod Mortimer",
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          "text": "Consider the lowly, downtrod worm.",
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          "text": "And having an entire group of people constantly waiting in the wings to downtrod even the slightest POSITIVE moves does not help matters.",
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        "(US) to oppress, suppress, exploit, persecute, step down on; put down; denigrate, subjugate"
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