Hide phoneticsverb [T often passive]
to govern people in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom:
For years now, the people have been oppressed by a ruthless dictator.
đàn áp
descendant
Hide phoneticsnoun [C]
a person who is related to someone and who lives after them, such as their child or grandchild:
He has no descendants.
They claim to be descendants of a French duke.
We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in.
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