downtrodden

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English *dountroden, past participle of Middle English dountreden (“to tread down, trample”), equivalent to down- + trodden.

Trickery of the downtrodden slaans against the ruling class. — Tarrano the Conqueror, Ray Cummings
[3] =el indio de espuela,= the oppressed, downtrodden Indian. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
The dumb fury of the downtrodden finds its awful support from the universal law of moral balance. — Creative Unity, Rabindranath Tagore

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