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    [Adjective]  | "down*trod*den" | \ ˈdau̇n-ˈträ-dᵊn \


    1: suffering oppression

    Origin: 1597 ;

    [Noun]  | "the downtrodden" 


    1: people who are without hope because of being treated badly by powerful people, governments, etc.

    [Adjective]  | "downtrodden" 


    1: suffering grave abuse or injustice at the hands of one in authority;


      * e.g., " ... a war that was supposed to liberate the downtrodden citizens of that nation "



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     [ "downtrodden" ]

    1: Beat down by the world and it's woes, trials, and tribulations; poor or impoverished; oppressed. Almost always used to describe a person or group of people in a truly sad state of things.

      * e.g.,  ... That guy doesn't seem simply out of luck, he seems downtrodden 

     [ "Defender of the Downtrodden" ]

    1: A man known to officials only as "Mister E." (pronounced "mis-tuh-ree"), that watches over Baltimore's downtrodden. It is rumored that when he was a younger affluent man, he was jailed after being falsely accused of a crime that would have had him killed had he not been saved by a poor, uneducated, black man in his cell.

      * e.g.,  ... Man, you hear that the Defender of the Downtrodden has gotten another brother released from that slammer? Look, a bird, a plane, the Defender of the Downtrodden. 

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