What does DEPRESS mean?

Definitions for DEPRESS
dɪˈprɛsde·press

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoraliseverb

    lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

    "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

  2. depressverb

    lower (prices or markets)

    "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"

  3. lower, depressverb

    cause to drop or sink

    "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"

  4. press down, depressverb

    press down

    "Depress the space key"

  5. depressverb

    lessen the activity or force of

    "The rising inflation depressed the economy"

Wiktionary

  1. depressverb

    To press down on

    Depress the upper lever to start the machine.

  2. depressverb

    To make depressed, sad or bored.

    Winter depresses me.

  3. depressverb

    To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.

    Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.

  4. Etymology: From depressen, from depresser, from depressus, perfect participle of deprimo, from de + premere.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To DEPRESSverb

    Etymology: from depressus, of deprimo, Latin.

    The same thing I have tried by letting a globe rest, and raising or depressing the eye, or otherwise moving it to make the angle of a just magnitude. Isaac Newton, Opt.

    Others depress their own minds, despond at the first difficulty, and conclude that the making any progress in knowledge is above their capacities. John Locke.

    If we consider how often it breaks the gloom, which is apt to depress the mind, with transient unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 249.

    Passion can depress or raise
    The heavenly, as the human mind. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPT

  1. depress

    Depress is a verb that generally means to reduce or lower the level or strength of something. It can also refer to pushing something downwards, making a person feel mentally unhappy or discouraged or causing a decrease in the activities of body functions or economic activity. Different contexts can imply different meanings.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Depressverb

    to press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes

  2. Depressverb

    to bring down or humble; to abase, as pride

  3. Depressverb

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

  4. Depressverb

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

  5. Depressverb

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

  6. Depressverb

    to reduce (an equation) in a lower degree

  7. Depressadjective

    having the middle lower than the border; concave

  8. Etymology: [L. depressus, p. p.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Depress

    de-pres′, v.t. to press down: to let down: to lower: to humble: to make subject: to dispirit or cast a gloom over.—n. Depres′sant (med.), a sedative.—p.adj. Depressed′, pressed down: lowered: humbled: dejected: dispirited.—adj. Depres′sing, able or tending to depress.—adv. Depres′singly.—ns. Depres′sion, a falling in or sinking: a lowering: a fall of the barometer: a hollow: abasement: dejection; Depres′sor, an oppressor: a muscle that draws down: a surgical instrument for squeezing down a soft part. [L. deprimĕre, -pressumde, down, and primĕre, to press.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. depress

    The order to adjust the quoin in great-gun exercise; to depress the muzzle to point at an object below the level, in contradistinction to elevate.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DEPRESS in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DEPRESS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of DEPRESS in a Sentence

  1. Mark Zandi:

    The rules of the game keep changing. For a business person, that is overwhelming, they're not going to feel like the coast is clear. That uncertainty will depress ability to go out and expand and grow. They're not going to go out and hire more people because they're not sure what lays ahead in the future. This is going to be a process. I don't think it's like a light switch going on.

  2. Joseph Addison:

    Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

  3. Richard Land:

    That would be a problem, i think it might depress [ turnout ] some.

  4. Ashlyn Brena:

    Never live your life to impress or depress but lead your life to success.

  5. Benjamin Ginsberg:

    One of the effects that the charges of fraudulent elections has is that it's going to depress Republican turnout — that if voters come to think their votes don't matter because the results are rigged, they'll stay home.

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