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Another word for depress

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Verb

  1. To make sad or gloomy

    See also:

    happy

  2. To cause to descend

    See also:

    rise

  3. To become or make less in price or value

    See also:

    money

    increase

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Another word for depress

Verb

  1. To bring to a lower level or state

    See also:

    press

    lower

    flatten

    dent

    deaden

  2. To lower in spirits

    See also:

    discourage

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • Locally applied they depress the terminations of sensory nerves, and may thereby lessen pain.

  • This capacity he never abused so as to burden his conscience or depress his spirits.

  • promised to depress the Irish woollen trade, he promised to do all he could for Irish linen.

  • As it does not depress the heart when used in medicinal doses, it may be given to patients suffering from cardiac disease.

  • All that the gentry could do was to depress the lower orders, and this they did at every opportunity.

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