Definition of depress

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Depress (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..

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Flat :: Flat (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress..
Cloud :: Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect..
Pool :: Pool (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool..
Faint :: Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits..
Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..
Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little..
Valley :: Valley (n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively..
Plain :: Plain (superl.) Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.
Low :: Low (superl.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note..
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
Lonely :: Lonely (superl.) Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
Fossulate :: Fossulate (a.) Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows..
Sinus :: Sinus (n.) A cavity; a depression.
Despondency :: Despondency (n.) The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
Faint :: Faint (v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax..
Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market..
Groove :: Groove (n.) A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut..
Umbilication :: Umbilication (n.) A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated..
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