how to pronounce oppressed

/əpˈɹɛst/

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oppressed is pronounced in two syllables

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əpɹɛst

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An example use of oppressed in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… and the Green oppressed but apparently …”

meanings of oppressed

adjective:

  1. Subject to oppression.

verb:

  1. Simple past tense and past participle of oppress.

oppressed frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word oppressed occurs in english on average 5.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics oppressed can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that oppressed can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

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