Definition of "downtrod" []

• Oppress, suppress, exploit, persecute, step down on; put down; denigrate, subjugate (verb)
• Downtrodden; abused by superior power (adjective)

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• "And having an entire group of people constantly waiting in the wings to downtrod even the slightest POSITIVE moves does not help matters."
• "I felt the surge of me Irish, thinking of all the other inequities the Brits had visited on our poor downtrod people, time out of mind, of me family that was gunmen during the Rebellion - the great-uncles Bob, and Michael, whose own name I bear."
• "They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of"