Oppressor

Synonyms for "oppressor" (75 found)

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Closest matches (15)

absolute monarchabsolute rulerall-powerful rulerarrogatorautarchautocratbullycaesarcommissarczar
Verb(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
cruel person

Strong matches (23)

Related words (37)

Related word relations

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More general

6 entries
aggressordisagreeable personpowerholderrulerstructureunpleasant person

More specific

6 entries
colonial rulerlandowning elitemilitary governormilitary juntapolice factionslave owner

Collocations

6 entries
authoritarian oppressorcolonial oppressormilitary oppressoroppressor classoppressor regimeracial oppressor

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He will avenge the people on their oppressor.

Source: tatoeba (302435)

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Source: tatoeba (2747555)

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Source: tatoeba (2944595)

She was silent, and he went on with increasing vehemence: “I am still that Edgar Ravenswood who, for your affection, renounced the dear ties by which injured honour bound him to seek vengeance. I am that Ravenswood who, for your sake, forgave, nay, clasped hands in friendship with, the oppressor and pillager of his house, the traducer and murderer of his father.”

Source: tatoeba (7760772)

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