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Depress [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To press down; to press to a lower state or position; as, to depress the end of a tube, or the muzzle of a gun.

2. To let fall; to bring down; as, to depress the eye.

3. To render dull or languid; to limit or diminish; as, to depress commerce.

4. To sink; to lower; to deject; to make sad; as, to depress the spirits or the mind.

5. To humble; to abase; as, to depress pride.

6. To sink in altitude; to cause to appear lower or nearer the horizon; as, a man sailing towards the equator depresses the pole.

7. To impoverish; to lower in temporal estate; as, misfortunes and losses have depressed the merchants .

8. To lower in value; as, to depress the price of stock.

Depress [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

Depress [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.

2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

3. To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.

4. To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.

5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

6. To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

Depressant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.

Depressed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

2. Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

3. Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.

4. Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.

Depressed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Depressing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pressing down; lowering in place; letting fall; sinking; dejecting; abasing; impoverishing; rendering languid.

Depressing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Depressingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a depressing manner.

Depression [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of pressing down; or the state of being pressed down; a low state.

2. A hollow; a sinking or falling in of a surface; or a forcing inwards; as roughness consisting in little protuberances and depressions; the depression of the skull.

3. The act of humbling; abasement; as the depression of pride; the depression of the nobility.

4. A sinking of the spirits; dejection; a state of sadness; want of courage or animation; as depression of the mind.

5. A low state of strength; a state of body succeeding debility in the formation of disease.

6. A low state of business or of property.

7. The sinking of the polar star towards the horizon, as a person recedes from the pole towards the equator. Also, the distance of a star from the horizon below, which is measured by an arch of the vertical circle or azimuth, passing through the star, intercepted between the star and the horizon.

8. In algebra, the depression of an equation, is the bringing of it into lower and more simple terms by division.

Depression [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of depressing.

2. The state of being depressed; a sinking.

3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

4. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

5. Dejection; despondency; lowness.

6. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

7. The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

8. The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.

9. A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.

Depressive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

Depressive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

Depressomotor [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.

Depressomotor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.

Depressor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. He that presses down; an oppressor.

2. In anatomy, a muscle that depresses or draws down the part to which it is attached; as the depressor of the lower jaw, or of the eyeball. It is called also depriment or deprimens.

Depressor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.

2. A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.