See Also: False Multiple Foul - Basketball(gambling)
False Double Foul - Basketball(gambling)
Multiple Foul - Basketball(gambling)
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False Multiple Foul - Basketball (gambling)


A situation in which a team commits two fouls in succession, with the second foul occurring before the ball has been put back into play after the first foul. Each foul carries a separate penalty. Compare double foul; false double foul; multiple foul.

oppress (medicine)


oppress


1. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. "For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down." (Shak) "Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen !" (Milton)

2. To ravish; to violate.

3. To put down; to crush out; to suppress. "The mutiny he there hastes to oppress." (Shak)

4. 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.

Origin: F. Oppresser, LL. Oppressare, fr. L. Oppressus, p. P. Of opprimere; ob (see Ob-) + premere to press. See Press.

Source: Websters Dictionary