Depress
[dɪ'pres] or [dɪ'prɛs]
Definition
(verb.) lessen the activity or force of; 'The rising inflation depressed the economy'.
(verb.) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; 'These news depressed her'; 'The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her'.
(verb.) lower (prices or markets); 'The glut of oil depressed gas prices'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
(v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
(v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
(v. t.) To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
(v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
(v. t.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
(a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Lower, detrude, drop, sink, bow, reduce, press down, let down, let fall, cast down, bring down.[2]. Degrade, humble, disgrace, humiliate, debase, abase, abash, bring low, take down.[3]. Discourage, dishearten, dispirit, deject, damp, dampen, chill, make sad, make despondent.[4]. Make dull (as trade).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ELEVATE]
Checker: Paulette
Definition
v.t. to press down: to let down: to lower: to humble: to make subject: to dispirit or cast a gloom over.—n. Depres′sant (med.) a sedative.—p.adj. Depressed′ pressed down: lowered: humbled: dejected: dispirited.—adj. Depres′sing able or tending to depress.—adv. Depres′singly.—ns. Depres′sion a falling in or sinking: a lowering: a fall of the barometer: a hollow: abasement: dejection; Depres′sor an oppressor: a muscle that draws down: a surgical instrument for squeezing down a soft part.
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Examples
- Few things shook me now; few things had importance to vex, intimidate, or depress me: most things pleased--mere trifles had a charm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The operator at the keyboard would depress the letter A, whereupon the cylinder would in its revolution bring the first-named pin against the key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Jay Gould at that time controlled the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, and was competing with the Western Union and endeavoring to depress Western Union stock on the Exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It would depress productive labour, by encouraging too hastily that labour which is altogether barren and unproductive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- On one occasion Malm saw a young fish raise and depress the lower eye through an angular distance of about seventy degrees. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- By raising up too hastily one species of industry, it would depress another more valuable species of industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am not depressed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He remains in close order, clouded and depressed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Much depressed, and, to me, unaccountably so, I slowly descended to the street. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Sergeant Cuff is depressed in his spirits; but Sergeant Cuff is a perfect gentleman. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She is depressed, but this confinement perhaps adds to her depression. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and shaken than I had ever seen him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Moreover, there is a sort of unhappiness which not only depresses, but corrodes; and that, I fear, is your portion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The operator next sends the letter M by depressing the appropriate key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the banks of the river Saone it was wet, depressing, solitary; and the night deepened fast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The pointer uses both hands in elevating and depressing the gun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Serpent, Sir,' repeated Mr. Pott, raising his voice, and then suddenly depressing it: 'I said, serpent, sir--make the most of it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I do not know what the effect was on the other side, but assume it must have been correspondingly depressing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the South, particularly in Richmond, the effect was correspondingly depressing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All this was very depressing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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