Depress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEPRESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make sad
• make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected
• reduce the level or strength of activity in (something, especially an economic or biological system)
• push or pull (something) down into a lower position
• To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
• To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
• To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
• To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
• To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
• To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
• lower someone\'s spirits; make downhearted
• lower (prices or markets)
• cause to drop or sink
• lessen the activity or force of
• make sad
ADJECTIVE:
• Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

Words related to DEPRESS

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Words that contain DEPRESS

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How to use DEPRESS in a sentence

• Another of them had said, when the sailors were flogged, it was out of the hearing of the Africans, lest it should depress their spirits.
• It is, therefore, dangerous to change the model of our forces, because it is dangerous to depress the spirit of our soldiers.
• Even now he was desperately ill with as horrible a wound as a man could have, but nothing was going to depress him.
• But I know when a thing is meant to uplift the human soul, and when it is meant to depress it.
• He could, indeed, raise or depress his manners in a very surprising degree, and with an effort that often occasioned astonishment.
• May God bless you! How sorry I am that you should have vexation on the top of more serious hurts to depress you.
• So far, I must own, the effect on me of reading the Report was to depress my spirits and to lower my hopes.
• The most it can do is to depress you with a sense of unceasing monotonous effort.
• Watch how their prosperity and their happiness depress and darken you.
• The depressed nervous energy, the impaired digestion, depress the spirits.
• When you want letters you type straight out, and when you want figures you just depress the lever.
• A knowledge that the Orangemen were arming in support of the crown, tended very much to depress the hopes and check the actions of the seditious.
• The appearance of Asiatic cholera in the autumn tended also to depress the close of the year.
• The French authorities did not want the wounded from Verdun to come to the Paris hospitals, for it might depress the people too much.
• Prejudices, authority, constraint, example, all social institutions which now depress us, would choke nature in him, and nothing would be put in its stead.
• Had I been alone, my loss would have been indeed a serious one, but as I hoped that my friends would soon overtake me, I did not allow it to depress my spirits.
• Senter told it, and enjoyed telling it, because she thought it would depress and take the spirit out of me.
• Here there is nothing to depress or deplore, nothing premature or startling, nothing to be supplemented or finished.
• Mention of America was apt to put the Herr Doktor in a bad humor or to depress him, which was even worse.
• The effect, to be sure, of his special manner is somewhat to dilute the temper of his art, and to depress the humor.
• The lessening of demand may, however, depress somewhat the price in the producing country.
• The work of women in factories operates in some ways to depress the wages of men, and it is harmful in its effects upon the home and family life.
• Unless immigration is limited, it must continue to depress the wages of American workingmen, through both its immediate and its ultimate effects.
• It is the result of rigid muscular effort or relaxation, and both depress not only the voice but the singer as well.
• The tendency of most singers is to relax and depress on soft tone, or to pinch and contract.
• Nothing did more to depress the Germans than the humorous and true accounts of the Zeppelin raids which were eventually allowed to appear in the English newspapers.
• Whatever opportunities Noel might have missed that day, he certainly did not permit the thought of them to depress him.
• Time could be gained by a gradual retreat, but that would raise the courage of the Boer party, and depress the spirits of the British.
• By craft and by illegal measures James continued to depress the Kirk.
• But no, the thought of a journey seemed to depress them.
• Each has a high place in English literature, which the greatness of the other cannot depress.

Similar words containing PRES without suffix s and without prefix de

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