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Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-pres
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈprɛs



Definition of depresses

Origin :
  • early 14c., "put down by force," from Old French depresser, from Late Latin depressare, frequentative of Latin deprimere "press down," from de- "down" (see de-) + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)).
  • Meaning "push down physically" is from early 15c.; that of "deject, make gloomy" is from 1620s; economic sense of "lower in value" is from 1878. Related: Depressed; depressing.
  • verb deject, make despondent; exhaust
  • verb devalue
  • verb push down
Example sentences :
  • It is the mechanical nature of the affair that so depresses me.
  • Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke
  • Every breath of wind, every wave, every cloud, agitates and depresses us.
  • Extract from : « Life and Times of David » by Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Because it depresses you, and I do not see the sense of causing you pain.
  • Extract from : « Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) » by Charles Paul de Kock
  • It is so antique and dismal that it depresses me dreadfully.
  • Extract from : « The Hardy Country » by Charles G. Harper
  • And it depresses me when I am at the office at night to think of you as lonely.
  • Extract from : « The Great God Success » by John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
  • But we needn't have the top on at all, if it depresses your spirits.
  • Extract from : « A Foregone Conclusion » by William Dean Howells
  • There is a kind of pressure that exhilarates us, and an absence of pressure that depresses us.
  • Extract from : « Under the Maples » by John Burroughs
  • It depresses the nervous system, especially the spinal cord.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 » by Various
  • It is not increase in number of exchanges that depresses prices.
  • Extract from : « The Value of Money » by Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.
  • The priesthood accepted the depreciation which depresses and paralyses the will.
  • Extract from : « The Priestly Vocation » by Bishop Bernard Ward

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