downpress
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downpress (third-person singular simple present downpresses, present participle downpressing, simple past and past participle downpressed)
- (transitive) To push or press downwards.
- (transitive, Rastafari) To oppress.
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 156:
- That’s why the white man just downpress you so.