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What does depress mean?
Definitions in simple English

depress Verb

— If you depress something, you push or hold it down. He depressed the button with his finger. — If something is depressed it is being made low. The prices were depressed by too much being available. — If something depresses you, it makes you very sad. Sad songs always depress me.

depress

— verb (= demoralize, demoralise) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted These news depressed her The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her — verb lower (prices or markets) The glut of oil depressed gas prices — verb lessen the activity or force of The rising inflation depressed the economy — verb cause to drop or sink The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir — verb (= press down) press down Depress the space key

Synonyms depress synonyms

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depress English » English

discourage dispirit sadden deject oppress lower dishearten humiliate drop disappoint be gloomy weaken press down on press down press get down dismay demoralize demoralise tyrannize sorrow overcome mortify make sad indent grieve enfeeble enervate dent debilitate dash darken dampen damp cast down aggrieve abase worsen worry work out win over weigh on weigh down weigh wash out vanquish use up upset unman unbrace

Topics depress topics

What do people use depress to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad

Conjugation depress conjugation

How do you conjugate depress?

depress · verb

Examples depress examples

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Simple sentences

Rain doesn't depress people who like reading.

Movie subtitles

Oh, don't let it depress you, laddie.
You depress me.
I don't wanna depress the whole family.
The flatness and misery of common life depress me.
No, but it doesn't depress me.
Mightn't going back to Kenley depress you?
But our disappointments did not depress us.
Well I don't want to depress you both but I'm afraid we're not quite where you think we are.
They used to bring me here for long, awful, boring walks when I was a kid and besides, the animals depress me.
The thought of the future needn't depress us, since we have none.
Our concern is that someone might dump them on the market to depress prices or?
We don't wanna depress anybody by.
You know, you depress me unutterably s-sometimes.
Never depress operator's foot triggers here, here, and at the rear here.
Oh, don't let it depress you, laddie. Worse things happen in the best families.
Well, don't let it depress you.
You depress me. This is a time for rejoicing.
Axel, you depress me.
I want to depress her.
Well, i. you know how i feel about hospitals, kitten- they kind of depress me.
All he has to do is depress the safety.
Frankly, Hogan, you depress me.
Depress you?
You depress me, because you're a scheming troublemaker.
Our concern is that someone might dump them on the market to depress prices or.
Deformed bodies depress me.
They are using your articles to depress the stock market, but secretly and little by little, they have been buying up the whole of the Morocco loan.
Doesn't depress me.
No, but it doesn't depress me. - I don't believe you.
Hey, let's not depress each other.
Ten degrees right, 15 degrees depress.
One mustn't read novels, they depress you.
It's going to depress you again.
The suburbs and provinces depress me.
We don't wanna depress anybody by. - Hey, hey.

News and current affairs

Decreased rates of household formation - young Americans, for example, are increasingly moving back in with their parents - depress housing prices, leading to still more foreclosures.
Thus, new fights on the debt ceiling, risks of a government shutdown, and rating downgrades could further depress consumer and business confidence, reducing spending and accelerating a flight to safety that would exacerbate the fall in stock markets.
The higher prices of food and energy depress real incomes further.
But if they do cut, the confidence fairy will reward them by stimulating private spending more than the cuts depress it.
Even income policies that lift wages, and hence labor income and consumption, are a better source of domestic growth than currency depreciations (which depress real wages).
Though lower oil prices depress consumer prices, they should boost production and overall GDP.
Adding high-tech systems to traditional processes can temporarily increase costs and thus depress productivity, especially if the new and old businesses are not well connected.
In the absence of exchange-rate depreciation, the adjustment process will depress wages and prices, raising the specter of deflation.
Here, unfair trade agreements - including the persistence of unjustifiable agricultural subsidies, which depress the prices upon which the income of many of the poorest depend - have played a role.
Many claimed that the treaty would depress wages, destroy jobs, and ravage the agricultural industry in the US.
The increased costs could further depress the drop of cross-border capital flows that has been underway for two years, since the end of the US stock market boom.
An additional factor could depress future birth rates in China and India.
If they do, the sale of foreclosed properties will continue to depress house prices, reducing household wealth and hurting financial institutions.
The default threat was a way to depress bond prices in secondary markets, only to buy them back at a discount through the back door.
There are, of course, serious downside risks to this forecast, especially if the fiscal deficit remains high or adverse tax policies depress the rise in productivity.
Confronted with another global slowdown that could depress its export markets for years, China needs to boost consumption even as it cools investment.
Until that investment shortfall is made up, the missing capital will serve to depress the level of real GDP in the US by two full percentage points.
As a result, the cost of capital in the US will soar, discouraging investment and reducing consumption spending as high interest rates depress the value of households' principal assets: their houses.
Additional supplies of oil to global markets will keep prices down or depress them further.
Falling employment lowers wage and salary incomes. The higher prices of food and energy depress real incomes further.
True, farm-support policies in rich countries tend to depress world prices, along with the incomes of agricultural producers in developing countries.
Higher real interest rates, in turn, depress business investment and residential construction.

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