Depress

Definitions: Depress

Depress

Verb

1. Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her".

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

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

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

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "depress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Depress

Concavity

Render concave; Adjective: depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.

Dejection

Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits.

Depression

Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate.

Dullness

Render dull; Adjective: damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on; fall flat upon the ear.

Crosswords: Depress

Books

• Getting over the Blues: Kid's Guide to Understanding and Coping With Unpleasant Feelings and Depress (reference)

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Figure 28. Lead weights used to depress the front of a net or trawl being dragged across the bottom.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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Stephen saw it sink as he had seen many another, feeling its heaviness depress his heart.

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Health

With the mouth wide open and the patient's head tilted back, gently depress the base of the tongue with a mouth mirror. (references)

In addition, opioids can produce drowsiness, cause constipation, and, depending upon the amount of drug taken, depress respiration. (references)

As mentioned previously, oxalic acid, which is present at high levels in some vegetables (e.g., spinach), has been found to depress absorption of the calcium present in the food but not of calcium in coingested dairy or other calcium-containing foods. (references)

Economic History

Zambia

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to hamper development and depress productivity, as an estimated 19% of the working age population is infected. (references)

Burma

Rampant inflation, a chronic foreign exchange shortage, and significant local currency depreciation have all worked in concert to depress local markets. (references)

Pakistan

In fact, the economy averaged an impressive growth rate of 6 percent per year during the 1980s and early 1990s. However, the economy is extremely vulnerable to Pakistan's external and internal shocks, such as in 1992-93, when devastating floods and political uncertainty combined to depress economic growth sharply and the financial crisis in Asia which hit major markets for Pakistani textile exports. (references)

Political Economy

Liberia

Average per capita income is estimated at less than $200 (10,000 ld). An estimated unemployment rate of 70 percent, a 30 percent literacy rate, the internal displacement of civilians in Lofa and Nimba counties, and the absence of infrastructure throughout the country continued to depress productive capacity, despite the country's rich natural resources and potential self-sufficiency in food. (references)

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Expressions using "depress": depress the market ♦ depress the spirits ♦ To depress the pole. Additional references.

Albanian

dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up, weaken), ul çmim (beat down, depreciate, underbid), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), pikëlloj (afflict, damp, distress, sadden), mposht (conquer, lick, manage, outdo, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, quench, restrain, subdue, take care of, vanquish), brengos (chill, damp, deject, grieve, sadden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏وقع كآبة, ‏حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depression, distress, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow), ‏ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, crowd, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, press, pressure, push, screw, smash, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian 

угнетявам (damp, oppress), спускам (descend, lour, lower, slope), гнетя (cast down, gripe, oppress, prey, weigh down), ослабвам (attenuate), натискам (hold down, jam, press, press down, push down), наклонявам (cant, dip, incline, lean, list, slant, slope, tip), налягам (press, visit), потискам (clamp, domineer, drive back, flatten, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, quench, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references)

Chinese 

压下 (Depressed, Depressing). (various references)

Czech

deprimovat (cast down, dishearten, dispirit, drag down, get down, get down on one's knees), zeslabit (become weak, diminish, enervate, impair, reduce, weaken), stlaèit (compress, press down, pull down, squeeze), stisknout (constrict, press, squeeze). (various references)

Dutch

neerdrukken, deprimeren. (various references)

Esperanto

deprimi. (various references)

Farsi 

کم بهاکردن(م.م.), افسرده کردن (Mope), ازارزش انداختن , دلتنگ کردن (Anguish, Mope), دژم کردن . (various references)

Finnish

tehdä alakuloiseksi (discourage), lamauttaa (discourage, dishearten, paralyze, stun). (various references)

French

diminuer (decline, decrease, detract), déprimer (demoralize, despond), réduire (debase, decrease, deplete), presser, faire baisser, attrister, appuyer sur, abattre (defeat, demolish, shoot dead, to destroy), abaisser (decrease, demolish, destroy). (various references)

Frisian

deprimearje. (various references)

German

deprimieren (deject, to depress), bedrücken (oppress, press, squeeze, to depress, vex). (various references)

Greek 

μελαγχολώ (be gloomy, brood, fret, mope, sadden, sulk), προξενώ κατάθλιψη. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ורי�" (bring down, decrease, let down, lower, sink, subtract, take down), ל�"� מיך (lower, tone down), ל�"כ�"ך (dismay, oppress). (various references)

Hungarian

deprimál (oppress, to hump, to oppress), lesújt (to afflict, to desolate, to distress, to floor, to overwhelm, to pound down, to visit), lehangol (cast down, distress, get down, hump, it gives me the blues, to cast down, to deject, to disconcert, to distress, to get sy down, to hip, to hump, to unman), leenged (ground, let down, lower, pull down, to deflate, to let down, to lower, to pull down). (various references)

Indonesian

menggundahkan (deeply sudden), menekan (compress, press, quash). (various references)

Italian

deprimere (damp, deject, flatten, get depressed, lose heart), ridurre (abandon ship, abate, abbreviate, abridge, adapt, Bate, be reduced, bring down, curtail, cut, cut down, decrease, drive, pare down, prune, rebate, reduce, reduce oneself, remit, shorten, shrink, turn into), rattristare (be sad, become sad, dull, sadden), premere (be of interest, bear down, bear down on, matter, oppress, press, pull, push, squeeze), indebolire (break down, enervations, enfeeble, etiolate, impair, impoverish, undermine, weaken, weaknesses), abbassare (abase, abate, debase, dip, droop, drop, duck, let down, lower, lower oneself, move down, put down, reduce, sink, soften, stoop, wind down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抑圧 (depression, repress vs, repression). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしさ�'る (to depress, to push or press or force down), へ�"ます (to dent, to depress, to humiliate, to indent), へ�"ませる (to dent, to depress, to humiliate, to indent). (various references)

Korean 

우울하게 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

tilgey sheese, lhaggaghey (abate, abatement, bate, dim, drop away, ease, ease off, fade, fade out, flag, mitigate; flagging, mitigation, reduce, reduction, relax, relaxation, write down), injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), cur sheese (book, deposit, discharge, give in, lay, lower, prescribe, put down, salt, send down, suppress), cur ass cree (demoralization, demoralize, discourage, dishearten), ceau sheese (throw down), broojey sheese (press down), broo sheese (press down). (various references)

Norwegian

trykke ned. (various references)

Pig Latin

epressday

Portuguese

desvalorizar (depreciate, devaluate, devalue), desencorajar (daunt, deter, discourage, dishearten, dispirited, unman, unnerve), desanimar (chill, collapse, damp, deject, despair, despond, discount coupon, discourage, disherison, dismay, dispirit, drench, flatten, quail, throw cold water on, unman, unnerve), deprimir (chill, deject, hip, hump, unman), debilitar (attenuate, crock, debilitate, enervation, enfetter, etiology, impair, impoverish, languish, unbrace, undermine, unnerve, weaken), humilhar (abase, abash, bemean, cast down, cheapen, demean, humble, humiliate, let down, louse, lower, mortify, prostrate), abater (abased, abate, abater, butcher, deject, discount, dishearten, down, fell, knock down, lay, lower, prostrate, rebate, reduce, retrench, shoot down, sink, slaughter, to kill, tumble down, unman, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

diminua (adate, decline, decrease, diminish, minimize, mitigate, reduce, retrench, take the edge off), descuraja (beat down, bring low, cast down, chill, damp, dash, daunt, deject, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve), deprima (bring low, cast down, deject, discourage, sadden), trage în jos, scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), necãji (anger, badger, bait, bother, crab, dishearten, endeavor, endeavour, fret, gall, grieve, irritate, lark, molest, rile, spite, tease, trouble, vex, worry), face sã slãbeascã, apãsa (bear, bear on, emphasize, jam, oppress, press, push, push down, squeeze, stress, torment, torture), afunda (deepen, dip, disappear, dissolve, dive, drench, duck, immerse, sink, soak, submerge). (various references)

Russian 

угнетать (damp, dispirite, grind, oppress, press upon, weigh down), опускать (cast down, down, let down, omit, omiting, pull down, sink, skip), нажимать на что-л., подавлять (bring under, browbeat, grind, keep down, mortify, overbear, overpower, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, stifle, subdue, suppress, whelm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

deprimirati, utući (deject), snužditi (deject), pritisnuti (jam, press, push, step on), oneraspoložiti (deject, distress, indispose), obeshrabriti (daunt, deject, discourage, dishearten, pour cold water on, wet blanket). (various references)

Spanish

deprimir (get down, oppress). (various references)

Swedish

nedslå (dash, deject, discourage). (various references)

Turkish

düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), neşesini kaçırmak, moralini bozmak (demoralize, dispirit, enervate), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off). (various references)

Ukranian 

ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), знижувати (abate, bring down, невимушенІсть [f], degrade, discount, lower, put down, reduce, send down, take from), пригнічувати (aggrieve, cast down, deject, downcast, flatten, hold down, hold under, oppress, repress, tread down, yoke), пригноблювати (oppress), придушувати (deject, neutralize, outray, overgo, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, stamp out, strangle, suppress). (various references)

Welsh

pruddhau (sadden), pantio (dent, sink). (various references)

depresserant, deprime, deprimebant, deprimentes, deprimentium, deprimeris, deprimo (depressus). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "depress": depressant, depressants, depressed, depresses, depressible, depressing, depressingly, depression, depressions, depressive, depressively, depressives, depressor, depressors, depressurization, depressurizations, depressurize, depressurized, depressurizes, depressurizing. (additional references)

Words containing "depress": antidepressant, antidepressants, antidepression, antidepressions, nondepressed, postdepression. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Depress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: degress, depres, depressa, Deprez, dereso, deress, epress. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pressed.

-1 letter: perses, seders, speeds, speers, sprees.

-2 letters: deeps, deers, drees, dress, erses, pedes, peers, perse, preed, prees, prese, press, redes, reeds, seder, seeds, seeps, seers, sered, seres, speed, speer, spree.

-3 letters: deep, deer, dees, dere, dree, eses, peds, peed, peer, pees, pree, rede, reds, reed, rees, reps, seed, seep, seer, sees, sere, sers, sped.

+1 letter: aspersed, deposers, despiser, disperse, presides, repassed, respades, speeders, spenders.

+2 letters: airspeeds, appressed, bespreads, dempsters, depressed, depresses, depressor, derepress, despisers, dispenser, dispersed, disperser, disperses, dopesters, expressed, impressed, oppressed, pederasts, percussed, persisted, persuades, precessed, presiders, pressured, processed, professed, rapeseeds, redispose, repressed, respreads, shepherds, speedster, spreaders, supersede, suspender, unpressed.

+3 letters: bedspreads, compressed, dapperness, decompress, depressant, depressing, depression, depressive, depressors, despairers, desperados, despoilers, dispensers, dispersers, dispersive, disreputes, disrespect, distempers, eavesdrops, elderships, endosperms, endospores, forepassed, hotpressed, leopardess, outpressed, overpassed, overspends, persuaders, powderless, preblessed, predigests, predispose, presidents, progressed, redeposits, redisposed, redisposes, responders, spearheads, speedsters, spideriest, spiderwebs, stampeders, supercedes, superposed, superseded, superseder, supersedes, supersized, supervised, suppressed, suspenders, trespassed.

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