"Oppress" is a word in ENGLISH
To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the
body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food
oppresses the stomach.
To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence,
to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
To ravish; to violate.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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