DEPRESS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Depress

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dɪprˈɛs/ Listen

verb

Depress v. t. (past & past part. depressed; pres. part. depressing)

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."

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.

(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.

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

adjective

Depress adj. Having the middle lower than the border; concave. (Obs.) "If the seal be depress or hollow."

See images of 'Depress'

Etymology of 'Depress'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Depress" Quotes from Famous Books

... considerations, it must certainly be allowed that religion and morality were, generally speaking, at a lower ebb than they have been at many other periods. For this the National Church must take a full share, but not more than a full share, of responsibility. The causes which elevate or depress the general tone of society have a corresponding influence, in kind if not in degree, upon the whole body of the clergy. Church history, throughout its whole course, shows very clearly that although the average level of their spiritual and moral life has ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... that "One man is as good as another and a great deal better" contains a truth, like many contradictions; a truth that was the link between Christianity and citizenship. Alone of all superiors, the saint does not depress the human dignity of others. He is not conscious of his superiority to them; but only more conscious of ...

— A Short History of England • G. K. Chesterton

... and clothing, and went to work on him. You know how they always roll up a coat or something and stuff it under drowned persons' shoulders to throw their head backward? Well, they did that; and afterward they began to move his arms up and down to make him breathe. The idea is to depress and expand the chest. We learned it in our 'first aid' class. Of course there are lots of things you have to do besides, and if you can get a doctor he will know of others that are better still. But ...

— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett

... foreign treaties he inform'd his youth, 890 And join'd experience to his native truth. His frugal care supplied the wanting throne— Frugal for that, but bounteous of his own: 'Tis easy conduct when exchequers flow; But hard the task to manage well the low; For sovereign power is too depress'd or high, When kings are forced to sell, or crowds to buy. Indulge one labour more, my weary muse, For Amiel: who can Amiel's praise refuse? Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yet 900 In his own worth, and without title great: The Sanhedrim long time as chief he ruled, ...

— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden

... the workings of a serpent, the workings of your sore- hurt heart in the matter of its revenges. Watch how the calamities that come on your enemies refresh and revive you. Watch how their prosperity and their happiness depress and darken you. Disentangle the desire for revenge and the delight in it out of the rank thickets of your wicked heart; drag that desire and delight out of its native darkness; know it, name it, and it will be impossible but that you will hate it like death ...

— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte

More quotes...