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verb

Depress v. t. (past & past part. depressed; pres. part. depressing)

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."

To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.

To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.

To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

(Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

To depress the pole (Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.

Synonyms: To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage.

adjective

Depress adj. Having the middle lower than the border; concave. (Obs.) "If the seal be depress or hollow."

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Etymology of 'Depress'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Depress" Quotes from Famous Books

... toward the metropolis. Slowly the landscape faded. Vineyards and chicken ranches and orchards and rolling hills studded with live oaks gave place to the electric-lighted tentacles of the city. The lights blinked by at Hiram. They helped depress him, for they were a part of the modernity that he feared. Suburbs grew to a continuous stretch of lighted streets and houses. Always those lights blinked on every side. There was witchery in all of it—in the smell of the city close at hand, in the cold salt air from the bay, in the chunk-a-lunk, ...

— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins

... efforts that Hawthorne was in Rome, and she is graphically depicted in his notebooks in her boyish cap at work in the clay. Gibson was an artist, con amore, and Miss Hosmer's joyous abandon to her art captivated his sympathy. "In my art what do I find?" he questioned; "happiness; love which does not depress me; difficulties which I do not fear; resolution which never abates; flights which carry me above the ground; ambition which tramples no one down." Master and pupil were akin in their unwearied devotion to ...

— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting

... trotted up to a brow to inspect us. I had a fairly good shot at him and missed. This disheartened us both. Meat was the one thing we now sorely needed to save the rapidly diminishing supply of hams. Fred said nothing, but I saw by his look how this trifling accident helped to depress him. I was ready to cry with vexation. My rifle was my pride, the stag of my life - my ALTER EGO. It was never out of my hands; every day I practised at prairie dogs, at sage hens, at a mark even if there was no game. A few days before we got to Laramie I had killed, right and left, two wild ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... Open his pores, which have been shut up all his life. Grand thing for him. He couldn't be going on better. I was afraid that the heat would depress him, and lay him on his back: don't you see that so long as he keeps active he will not feel ...

— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn

... wine, good wine, should do it! Upon my soul," half seriously, half humorously, securing the bottle, "you shall drink no more of it. Wine was meant to gladden the heart, not grieve it; to heighten confidence, not depress it." ...

— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville

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