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dɪˈprɛsde·press

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. depress

    Abase refers only to outward conditions. "Exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high." Ezek. xxi, 26. Debase applies to quality or character. The coinage is debased by excess of alloy, the man by vice. Humble in present use refers chiefly to feeling of heart; humiliate to outward conditions; even when one is said to humble himself, he either has or affects to have humility of heart. To disgrace may be to bring or inflict odium upon others, but the word is chiefly and increasingly applied to such moral odium as one by his own acts brings upon himself; the noun disgrace retains more of the passive sense than the verb; he disgraced himself by his conduct; he brought disgrace upon his family. To dishonor a person is to deprive him of honor that should or might be given. To discredit one is to injure his reputation, as for veracity or solvency. A sense of unworthiness humbles; a shameful insult humiliates; imprisonment for crime disgraces. Degrade may refer to either station or character. An officer is degraded by being reduced to the ranks, disgraced by cowardice; vile practises degrade; drunkenness is a degrading vice. Misfortune or injustice may abase the good; nothing but their own ill-doing can debase or disgrace them.

    Synonyms:
    abase, bring low, cast down, debase, degrade, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, lower, reduce, sink

    Antonyms:
    advance, aggrandize, dignify, elevate, exalt, honor, promote, raise, uplift

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  1. depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoraliseverb

    lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

    "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

    Synonyms:
    start, write down, unhorse, bring down, set about, get, begin, get off, deprave, lower, demoralise, commence, misdirect, dispirit, get down, debase, dismay, demoralize, profane, appal, swallow, horrify, alarm, subvert, vitiate, take down, set down, dismount, put down, press down, let down, cast down, debauch, appall, deject, pervert, start out, light, corrupt, set out

    Antonyms:
    uplift, intoxicate, lift up, elate, pick up

  2. depressverb

    lower (prices or markets)

    "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"

    Synonyms:
    demoralise, deject, lower, press down, dispirit, get down, demoralize, dismay, cast down

    Antonyms:
    elate, lift up, pick up, intoxicate, uplift

  3. lower, depressverb

    cause to drop or sink

    "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"

    Synonyms:
    glower, bring down, dismay, let down, take down, frown, dispirit, lower, lour, deject, demoralise, get down, press down, demoralize, cast down, turn down

    Antonyms:
    uplift, pick up, intoxicate, lift up, elate

  4. press down, depressverb

    press down

    "Depress the space key"

    Synonyms:
    deject, lower, press down, dispirit, get down, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, cast down

    Antonyms:
    pick up, lift up, intoxicate, elate, uplift

  5. depressverb

    lessen the activity or force of

    "The rising inflation depressed the economy"

    Synonyms:
    demoralise, deject, lower, press down, dispirit, get down, demoralize, dismay, cast down

    Antonyms:
    elate, uplift, intoxicate, lift up, pick up

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    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. depressverb

    Synonyms:
    lower, detrude, drop, sink, bow, reduce, press down, let down, let fall, cast down, bring down

  2. depressverb

    Synonyms:
    degrade, humble, disgrace, humiliate, debase, abase, abash, bring low, take down

  3. depressverb

    Synonyms:
    discourage, dishearten, dispirit, deject, damp, dampen, chill, make sad, make despondent

  4. depressverb

    Synonyms:
    make dull (as trade)

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  1. List of paraphrases for "depress":

    press

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How to use depress in a sentence?

  1. Laurence Wormald:

    Crowding and herding is the big problem with smart-beta, the illusion of being able to permanently depress the risk on equities through smart-beta or minimum-variance strategies has been very, very appealing, and a lot of money has piled in, but that delusion cannot be kept up because it's based on a strategy that doesn't work when the crowd arrives.

  2. Daniel Silver:

    The snowstorms ... may depress payrolls modestly, likely by less than 10,000 jobs.

  3. Joseph Addison:

    Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

  4. Joseph Addison:

    Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

  5. Chris Borick:

    President Donald Trump's standing in the polls is not in a great place, so, President Donald Trump paths to victory might involve efforts to depress turnout and to question the validity of results, if it comes to that. The President and The President campaign have engaged in The Trump campaign.


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