depress in English

verb

1

make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected.

that first day at school depressed me

synonyms: sadden, dispirit, cast down, get down, dishearten, demoralize, crush, shake, desolate, weigh down, oppress, upset, distress, grieve, haunt, harrow, give someone the blues

2

push or pull (something) down into a lower position.

depress the lever

synonyms: press, push, hold down, thumb, tap, operate, activate

verb

sadden, dispirit, cast down, get down, dishearten, demoralize, crush, shake, desolate, weigh down, oppress, upset, distress, grieve, haunt, harrow, give someone the blues
slow down, reduce, lower, weaken, impair, limit, check, inhibit, restrict
reduce, lower, cut, cheapen, keep down, discount, deflate, depreciate, devalue, diminish, ax, slash
press, push, hold down, thumb, tap, operate, activate
demoralize, dispirit, dismay, deject, cast down, get down
lower
press down

Use "depress" in a sentence

1. Depress the muzzle.

2. Depress the brake slowly.

3. Depress the clutch fully.

4. to depress the clutch pedal .

5. 8 to depress the clutch pedal .

6. Runaway inflation will depress the economy.

7. You know how hovels depress me.

8. The rainy days always depress me.

9. Slowly depress the accelerator/brake pedal.

10. 7 Slowly depress the accelerator/brake pedal.

11. High interest rates may depress share prices.

12. It would really depress me if I did.

13. This drug helps depress high hormone levels.

14. 5 This drug helps depress high hormone levels.

15. Several factors combined to depress the American economy.

16. The governor thinks higher taxes will depress the state's economy.

17. High interest rates are continuing to depress the economy.

18. Cyclopropane is nonirritating to mucous membranes and does not depress respiration

19. That could depress prices over the next year, some analysts say.

20. Key Neurotransmitters aMSH and CART depress feeding behavior therefore called Anorectic peptides

21. Listening to the news can really depress you, if you let it.

22. Okay, to achieve the anesthetic state, general Anesthetics depress the central nervous system

23. A surplus of corn has helped depress the grain market/grain prices.

24. DEPRESS AND HOLD THE BRAKE PEDAL, WITH THE DRB , ACTUATE THE LEFT REAR HYDRAULIC.

25. Fierce price deflation, increased competition and rising costs have combined to depress profits.

26. Low inflation, competitive pressure and a continued focus on fiscal austerity depress projected raises, Hewitt says.

27. Benzodiazepines (behn-zoh-di-AZ-uh-peens) are medicines that depress the central nervous system.

28. They oppress, depress and divide the forces of possible resistance, and turn ordinary people against them.

29. Calmatives, as a class of drugs, are compounds that depress or inhibit the central nervous system

30. Synonyms for Cheapen include reduce, devalue, depreciate, discount, lower, devaluate, depress, cut, slash and drop

31. 'Bated' is simply a shortened form of 'aBated', meaning 'to bring down, lower or depress'

32. Shaun decided to leave. The way the others were behaving was beginning to depress him.

33. The uncertainty and disruption of drawn-out and doubtless acrimonious divorce proceedings would depress investment and growth.

34. They give the good speller a chance to use his skill, but may depress a poor speller.

35. Cheap timber from rainforests allowed it to undercut competitors, and so depress the global paper market.

36. Normally rising interest rates will depress the price of gilts by making their fixed interest payments less attractive to investors.

37. 19 An interaction between bit stuffing and the use of cyclic redundancy code (CRC) can depress the reliability of CAN.

38. The slightest change in the barometer, although it might be due to factors quite outside our control, would correspondingly depress them.

39. Alloquial Ginger does not depress the pedal into the draft? Also pink and gold plated bugle to anyone ahead of arctic warming

40. The desired actions of Antitussives are as follows: Acts directly on the medullary cough center of the brain to depress the cough reflex.

41. Some Antihypertensive drugs, most notably beta-blockers, depress heart rate and contractility (this decreases stroke volume) by blocking the influence of sympathetic nerves on the heart.

42. A low level of liquidity circulation could depress the level of asset prices and force commercial banks into a further series of balance-sheet adjustments.

43. For example, reducing the size of the state-enterprise sector is necessary, yet would be certain to depress aggregate demand at a time when demand is already soft.

44. It is an effective way for our prefabricate part industry to develop high effective pre-stressed reinforced concrete hollow slab so as to go out of the depress.

45. Although the mechanisms of action are not fully understood, it is generally thought that Antispasmodics depress polysynaptic reflexes within the dorsal horn of the spinal cord at spinal interneurons, and

46. (4) Immediate and complete alignment with the tax rules for tobacco in mainland France would depress economic activity linked to manufactured tobacco in Corsica which, at present, provides the abovementioned jobs.

47. The literal sense of Abase is to lower or depress, to throw or cast down, as used by Bacon, 'to Abase the eye.' But the word is seldom used in reference to material things.

48. The literal sense of Abase is to lower or depress, to throw or cast down, as used by Bacon, 'to Abase the eye.' But the word is seldom used in reference to material things

49. "Saying so, he Abased his lance''." - '' To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade

50. The literal sense of Abase is to lower or depress, to throw or cast down, as used by Bacon, "to Abase the eye." But the word is seldom used in reference to material things