transitive. To thrust down or oppress; to abase, humble; to straiten, constrict. Also: †to bend down. (obsolete). Scottish in later use. Now rare.

transitive. To extinguish, quench; to put an end to, suppress, quell; to overwhelm, destroy, kill.

transitive. To tread over; to trample under foot. Also figurative: to crush, oppress, subdue. Now chiefly poetic.

transitive. To crush or overcome (a person or thing); to subdue, oppress; to reduce to submission, silence, etc.; †to force down to (obsolete)…

Beneath the foot or feet; on the ground. With verbs. (Also in figurative use: cf. 2.) to trampleor tread under foot (also †feet): to oppress…

transitive. To reduce (a person, an enemy, etc.) to submission; to prevail over, conquer; (also in extended use) to overcome, subdue.

transitive. To push (a person or thing) to the ground; (in extended use) to overthrow; to defeat. Also figurative. Cf. downbear, v.

transitive. To overcome, put down, or subdue; to suppress; to check or put an end to; (spec.) to overwhelm (a person) in a fight or battle. Obsolete.

transitive. To put down by force, suppress (an enemy, lawbreaker, troublemaker, etc.); to reduce to subjection, subdue.

transitive. To put a yoke upon; to subjugate.

transitive. To oppress, crush; †to kill, destroy (obsolete). Occasionally with †out. Now rare.

transitive. To push (a person or thing) to the ground by weight or physical force; to overwhelm; (also figurative) to overthrow, overcome (a…

transitive. To overcome (a person) by force; to overpower, subdue. Also: to suppress, put down, put an end to (something). Obsolete.

transitive. To quell, overcome, subdue.

rarely transitive. To tread (under foot). Obsolete.

transitive. = suppress, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To bear or carry (someone or something) downwards; to press or strike down; to cause to sink; (figurative) to oppress, to defeat, to…

To restrain from turbulence or violence; to put down, suppress (rebels, lawbreakers). Scottish.

transitive. To tread under foot; to subdue or subjugate.

transitive. To crush as if by treading. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts: to suppress or subdue; to oppress by tyranny.

transitive. figurative. To keep (a person, the mind, etc.) in a low or deprived state; to burden, weigh down. Now archaic and rare.

to set one's foot on the neck of and variants: to hold in subjection, to subjugate, to oppress. Cf. neck, n.1 phrases 1a.

To keep down, repress, restrain from activity; to put down, suppress; to oppress. Obsolete.

transitive. figurative. To overcome, put down, or repress, as by power, authority, influence, or emotional pressure; to overpower, oppress; to…

transitive. = suppress, v. 4.

figurative.

transitive. To force back down, repress. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To deal with in such a way as to confound or overcome completely; to treat or handle roughly or severely; to crush, destroy.

To deal effectively with (a person) by way of punishment, repression, etc.

transitive. To tread heavily and (esp.) injuriously upon; to crush, break down, or destroy by heavy treading; also to trample down, to trample unde…

intransitive. To suppress (something troublesome), to keep hidden or from public view.

to clamp down. To press down on; transferred to take strong measures; to become (more) strict; to put a stop to (an undesirable activity, etc.)…

to repress, to take strong measures against. Const. on, upon. colloquial.

transferred and figurative. To oppress or constrict as by ramming; to subdue or contain by force. Also const. down. U.S.