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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
depress
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically depressed (=with not enough business activity, jobs etc)
▪ Economically depressed areas in the northeast will receive extra EU funding.
weak/ailing/depressed
▪ The economy is weak and consumer confidence is low.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
clinically
▪ Not all people who are sad are clinically depressed.
▪ Researchers speculate that this area becomes overloaded and shuts down eventually, leaving the woman numb and clinically depressed.
deeply
▪ The demonology that clinches the sale is deeply depressing.
▪ But, nobody knew how deeply depressed I was myself.
further
▪ Thus a spiral has developed where falling prices deter purchasers, which further depresses prices.
more
▪ What is more depressing is the way this escape from the facts is beginning to creep into Western discourse on Kosovo.
▪ Tom imagined the worst some-times, especially at dusk when he felt more depressed than at any other time of day.
▪ BAshley, unlike her brother, is more depressed than hostile.
▪ And so they wait for the ax to fall, wondering why they get more depressed and sick.
▪ He was more depressed by this failure than he admitted to himself.
▪ As the years went by and the excruciating physical pain continued, the woman became understandably more and more depressed and anxious.
▪ I had become more and more depressed and more and more certain that I had no one to blame but myself.
▪ As we pass one after another of these kinds of homes I find myself getting more and more depressed.
most
▪ I think this was the most depressing place for learning that I have seen anywhere.
really
▪ It would really depress me if I did.
▪ I find it really depressing that a city as diverse as New York has succumbed to this kind of corporate takeover.
severely
▪ At worst, we can become anxious, insecure and severely depressed.
▪ A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
▪ Also, an overdose of barbiturates can severely depress the central nervous system and lead to death.
▪ What she is, though I do not know it at the time, is severely depressed.
so
▪ Cheap timber from rainforests allowed it to undercut competitors, and so depress the global paper market.
▪ It was all so sad, so depressing, so futile.
▪ He did not find the voyage itself so difficult or uncomfortable, so why was it that he felt so depressed?
▪ Carol Buckley became so depressed that she attempted suicide and spent 1 years in and out of psychiatric hospitals.
too
▪ Jack had been meaning to write for some time but had kept putting it off because it was too depressing.
▪ Wages are too depressed in Tucson, this businessperson said, adding the initiative seems like a great idea.
very
▪ We were committed, perhaps too committed - and then very depressed by the response.
▪ With this in mind, let me tell you: Charles Restaurant is one very depressing place.
▪ I am very depressed and can not stop crying.
▪ Then the man disappoints her, and she is very depressed.
▪ If all musicians and composers measured themselves against Mozart, they would be very depressed people.
▪ After my second or third game, I was very depressed, thinking so much had gone wrong.
■ NOUN
market
▪ Cheap timber from rainforests allowed it to undercut competitors, and so depress the global paper market.
▪ But the depressed market has caused the company to build up huge debts.
▪ One house in five sold in Britain now is repossessed, and that depresses the house price market.
price
▪ Normally rising interest rates will depress the price of gilts by making their fixed interest payments less attractive to investors.
▪ That could depress prices over the next year, some analysts say.
▪ This of course, simply depresses world prices further, making matters worse for them.
▪ But that could cause another problem: If enough farmers pile into grain, it might cause an oversupply and depress prices.
▪ Thus a spiral has developed where falling prices deter purchasers, which further depresses prices.
▪ But new steel mills are starting up, which some analysts expect will boost supply and depress prices over the next year.
▪ The sale of securities depresses their price and so raises interest rates.
▪ That will depress the price of the collateral and other assets sitting on balance sheets.
system
▪ The fact is, however, that alcohol depresses the nervous system, including the part of the brain which inhibits behaviour.
▪ Also, an overdose of barbiturates can severely depress the central nervous system and lead to death.
▪ Alcohol depresses the nervous system, and taken in excess impairs intellectual functioning.
▪ People with depressed immune systems also tend to experience major problems with infections caused by ordinary fungi.
woman
▪ There is some, rather depressing, evidence that women are as thrilled by male hardness as ever they were.
■ VERB
become
▪ Older people can quickly become dispirited and depressed by chronic illness.
▪ A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
▪ I had become more and more depressed and more and more certain that I had no one to blame but myself.
▪ Eleanor was beaten repeatedly by her husband and became depressed as a result.
▪ When Juliette becomes depressed and finally suicidal, Alex and Marie put aside their jealousies to aid the girl.
▪ Carol Buckley became so depressed that she attempted suicide and spent 1 years in and out of psychiatric hospitals.
▪ Of course, a woman whose family has been everything to her may become depressed when the children grow up and away.
feel
▪ Today the Tay was the colour of infinity and made me feel suddenly depressed.
▪ Yet, as I rested my weary body into my bath that night and closed my eyes, I felt depressed.
▪ When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food, I spent several days feeling depressed.
▪ There were plenty of excuses I could have used to feel depressed about my future.
▪ If it is raining or snowing, we feel displeased, and start the day feeling moody and depressed.
▪ No, the boy said, he felt depressed.
▪ She was always there for me when I felt discouraged or depressed.
get
▪ The next morning, we got a particularly depressing sample of how poorly our intelligence-gathering system worked.
▪ And so you stay stuck, spinning your wheels, and getting angry or depressed.
▪ In addition to being angry about this, I could get depressed.
▪ Some can undergo terrible problems and not get depressed, while others are depressed for no apparent reason.
▪ And so they wait for the ax to fall, wondering why they get more depressed and sick.
▪ As we pass one after another of these kinds of homes I find myself getting more and more depressed.
▪ He gets depressed when he reads computer ads describing models that are two-thirds again as fast as his but cost one-third less.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Depress the brake slowly.
▪ Falling demand for wheat has depressed its market price.
▪ It depressed me to think that five years ago I was earning more than I do now.
▪ Listening to the news can really depress you, if you let it.
▪ Shaun decided to leave. The way the others were behaving was beginning to depress him.
▪ That movie depressed me for hours.
▪ The governor thinks higher taxes will depress the state's economy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Sometimes she stayed for weeks, but it depressed her terribly.
▪ The aim in doing this is not to depress yourself but to be open to the possibility of self-improvement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depress

Depress \De*press"\, a. [L. depressus, p. p.] Having the middle lower than the border; concave. [Obs.]

If the seal be depress or hollow.
--Hammond.

Depress

Depress \De*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Depressing.] [L. depressus, p. p. of deprimere; de- + premere to press. See Press.]

  1. To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. ``With lips depressed.''
    --Tennyson.

  2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

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

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

  5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

  6. (Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

    To depress the pole (Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.

    Syn: To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
depress

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.

Wiktionary
depress

vb. 1 (senseid en move_downward)To press down. 2 To make depressed, sad or bored. 3 To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy. 4 To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.). 5 (context math English) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

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WordNet
depress

  1. v. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate]

  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" [syn: lower]

  4. press down; "Depress the space key" [syn: press down]

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

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Usage examples of "depress".

The actuator is engaged by depressing the button built into the reverse of the pistol grip.

Smokies shelters but are airier, cleaner, better designed, and without those horrible, depressing chain-link fences across their fronts.

I had been depressed and utterly baffled when I arrived in Alsatia an hour earlier.

Where Little Arcady had looked for the best Brussels carpets, there came only dull-colored rugs of a most aged and depressing lack of gayety.

Gina had come away from her meeting with Baumer depressed by a feeling of failure.

In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the theatrical profession all over her pretty, painted face.

You should be positioned so that when you have the brakes or clutch fully depressed, you still have your knees bent.

It was depressing to hear, and Bremen soon gave up on pursuing his inquiries.

When Blaine and Butts rode into the yard at the home ranch they found a depressed and worried company gathered on the veranda of the big house.

The upper three-quarters of the anterior articular surface of the calcis is not in contact with the cuboid, the latter being depressed obliquely forward and downward, the lower portion of the posterior facet on the cuboid articulating with a new surface on the under portion of the bone.

That was enough, Cathartes thought, to make them the most depressing section of the whole.

It is efficient in fevers, and for breaking up colds, and is a very valuable, remedial agent in most chronic diseases, assisting in removing causes which depress the bodily functions.

Slice-of-life commercials usually deal with the more depressing areas of lifeodors, sores, old age, ugliness, pain.

We do not use those narcotics and compounds of antipyrine and other similar agents which are very depressing in their effects, and, like morphine and other preparations of opium, give only temporary relief, and interfere with the action of the heart, but we use treatment that builds up the system, removes the cause of the difficulty and restores the nervous system and all the organs of the body to a normal and healthful condition.

The dictates of true policy dissuaded her from contributing to her further conquest in that kingdom, which would have proved the source of contention among the allies, depressed the house of Bourbon below the standard of importance which the balance of Europe required it should maintain, and aggrandize the states-general at the expense of Great Britain.