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Definition of Depress

1. Verb. Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted. "The performance is likely to depress Sue"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

2. Verb. Lower (prices or markets). "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"

3. Verb. Cause to drop or sink. "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"

4. Verb. Press down. "Depress the space key"

5. Verb. Lessen the activity or force of. "The rising inflation depressed the economy"

Definition of Depress

1. 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.

2. a. Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

Definition of Depress

1. Verb. To press down on ¹

2. Verb. To make depressed, sad or bored. ¹

3. Verb. To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Depress

1. to make sad [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: sad

Medical Definition of Depress

1. Having the middle lower than the border; concave. "If the seal be depress or hollow." (Hammond) Origin: L. Depressus, p. P. 1. To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." 2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride. 3. To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed. 4. To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc. 5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate. 6. To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree. To depress the pole, to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator. Synonym: To sink, lower, abase, cast down, deject, humble, degrade, dispirit, discourage. Origin: L. Depressus, p. P. Of deprimere; de- + premere to press. See Press. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Depress

depredating depredation depredations depredator depredators depredatory deprehend deprehended deprehending deprehends

deprehensible deprehension deprehensions deprenyl deprenyls depress (current term) depressable depressant depressants depressed

depressed fracture depressed skull fracture depressedly depressedness depresses depressible depressing depressingly depressingness depression

Literary usage of Depress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Materia medica for nurses by Aaron Samuel Blumgarten (1916)
"Many of the analgesics depress certain functions of the brain while ... Progressive depressants are drugs that progressively depress the functions of the ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see ELEVATION. depreciate, vt 1. depress (in value, price, etc. ... Antonyms: see ADVANCE. depress, vt 1. See LOWER (as to position in space), ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"In the earlier years of his power he did what he could to depress the rival house of Mercia; but as the prospect of the sent to the duke as hostages by Earl ..."

4. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases in the by Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson (1886)
"STOCK—CONSPIRACY TO depress VALUE—REMEDY. There is no force, we think, in the objection urged to the complaint that the allegations, as to the conspiracy ..."

5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Let the screw readings in the two cases be d and d'. If W is the weight required to depress the attracted disk into the same sighted position when the ..."

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