to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism. to lie heavily upon (the mind, a person, etc.): Care and sorrow oppressed them. to weigh down, as sleep or weariness does.

What does mean by subjugate?

transitive verb. 1 : to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer. 2 : to make submissive : subdue.

What does Opressing someone mean?

To oppress is usually to subject (a people) to burdens, to undue exercise of authority, and the like; its chief application, therefore, is to a social or political situation: a tyrant oppressing his subjects.