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Depress

verb

(past & past part. depressed; pres. part. depressing)

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted. Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down. "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

Lower (prices or markets).

Cause to drop or sink. Synonym: lower.

Press down. Synonym: press down.

Lessen the activity or force of.

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"Depress" Quotes from Famous Books

... himself into trouble by giving an injudicious toast. The (p. 150) repression brought to bear on Burns cannot have been very stringent when he was still free to sport such sentiments. The worst effect of the remonstrance he received seems to have been to irritate his temper, and to depress his spirits by the conviction, unfounded though it was, that all hope of ...

— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp

... Latin language. Cicero and himself were the only Romans of distinction in that age, who applied themselves with true patriotism to the task of purifying and ennobling their mother tongue. Both were aware of the transcendent quality of the Grecian literature; but that splendor did not depress their hopes of raising their own to something of the same level. As respected the natural wealth of the two languages, it was the private opinion of Cicero, that the Latin had the advantage; and if Csar did not accompany him to that length, he ...

— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

... gossip," he began cheerily, as if no word had been said that could depress the tone ...

— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller

... to depress her, poor girl . . . ," he thought. "Why did I say such a lot of dreadful things? She is silly, that's true, uncivilised and narrow; but . . . there are two sides to the question, and audiatur et altera pars. . . ...

— Love and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... long fatigue depress'd, Exhausted nature sunk oppress'd, Till waken'd from her slumbering rest, By balmy Spring returning. Now in flower'd vesture, green and gay, Lovelier each succeeding day; Soon from her face shall pass away, ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

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