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Meaning of under the bootheel of | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

Subjugated by (an oppressive force).

Examples

“Serfdom was formally abolished in 1861 as part of the Great Reforms under Alexander II. But the peasantry, the preponderant class in czarist Russia, still lived under the boot heel of patriarchal semi-feudalism.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

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