Definition of depress

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Depress (v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride..

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Depressed :: Depressed (a.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies..
Reaction :: Reaction (n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
Depressed :: Depressed (imp. & p. p.) of Depres.
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
Fossa :: Fossa (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds..
Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..
Hollow :: Hollow (n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed..
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.
Anfractuosity :: Anfractuosity (n.) A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.
Punctated :: Punctated (a.) Dotted with small spots of color, or with minute depressions or pits..
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..
Low :: Low (v. t.) To depress; to lower.
Cow :: Cow (v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
Depressive :: Depressive (a.) Able or tending to depress or cast down.
Dismay :: Dismay (v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
Cyclamen :: Cyclamen (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms..
Depression :: Depression (n.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits..
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