onderdrukken — meaning in English
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English meaning
- coerce verb To force someone into doing something, using pressure, threats, or intimidation.
- dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
- mortify verb To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- oppress verb To control or treat a group of people unfairly and cruelly, often by force.
- quash verb To officially cancel or reject a legal decision, charge, or order.
- restrain verb To hold back or keep someone or something under control.
- stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
- strangle verb To kill or injure someone by squeezing their throat and cutting off their air.
- suppress verb To forcibly put an end to something, such as a rebellion or protest.
Senses
onderdrukken is used for these senses in English:
- coerce (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- dismiss (transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
- dismiss (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
- mortify (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]
- oppress (transitive) To keep down by unjust force.
- quash To defeat decisively, to suppress.
- restrain (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- stifle (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
coerce — full definition
- verb To force someone into doing something, using pressure, threats, or intimidation.
- verb In computing, to force a value to convert from one data type to another.
dismiss — full definition
- verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
- verb To refuse to take something seriously or to consider it worth thinking about.
- verb To tell someone they are free to leave.