Definition of depress

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Depress (v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes..

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Incavation :: Incavation (n.) Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression..
Lake :: Lake (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area..
Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease..
Seam :: Seam (n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
Kick :: Kick (n.) A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick..
Hollow :: Hollow (n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
Prosternation :: Prosternation (n.) Dejection; depression.
Chopfallen :: Chopfallen (a.) Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen..
Fossa :: Fossa (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds..
Depressant :: Depressant (n.) An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
Dishearten :: Dishearten (v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Depression :: Depression (n.) Dejection; despondency; lowness.
Shallow-waisted :: Shallow-waisted (a.) Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel..
Erect :: Erect (a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
Flat :: Flat (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone..
Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane..
Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt..
Equanimous :: Equanimous (a.) Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed..
Despondency :: Despondency (n.) The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
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