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depress
[dih-pres]
verb (used with object)
to make sad or gloomy; lower in spirits; deject; dispirit.
Synonyms: , ,to lower in force, vigor, activity, etc.; weaken; make dull.
to lower in amount or value.
Synonyms: ,to put into a lower position.
to depress the muzzle of a gun.
Antonyms: ,to press down.
Music.to lower in pitch.
depress
/ ɪˈɛ /
verb
to lower in spirits; make gloomy; deject
to weaken or lower the force, vigour, or energy of
to lower prices of (securities or a security market)
to press or push down
to lower the pitch of (a musical sound)
obsoleteto suppress or subjugate
Other Word Forms
- depressible adjective
- depressibility noun
- overdepress verb (used with object)
- undepressible adjective
- ˈ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of depress1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Of the nearly 1,700 schools across the province, more than 100 are no-fee institutions as designated by the government for learners living in economically depressed areas.
He added the number of parties involved could be "depressing for a shared owner; that feeling of being passed from pillar to post and being fobbed off at different parts of the process".
That can put them on edge and heighten their separation anxiety, Langan said, and if their owners are depressed or grief-stricken about loss and uncertainty, the animals absorb those emotions too.
Hearing that a friend of a friend is getting serious with a nude webcam model, she says coolly: “He’s a 5-foot-7 depressed novelist who’s never been published — he couldn’t do better.”
The fact that educators and students are allegedly the groups most suspicious of ChatGPT’s fondness for em dashes also makes inherent, if depressing, sense.
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