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Despond :: Despond (v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view..

Flatness :: Flatness (n.) Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

Intaglio :: Intaglio (n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively..

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor..

Lacuna :: Lacuna (n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

Lacuna :: Lacuna (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane..

Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped..

Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..

Introcession :: Introcession (n.) A depression, or inward sinking of parts..

Dull :: Dull (superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day..

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..

Hoopoo :: Hoopoo (n.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera..

Alveolus :: Alveolus (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc..

Dismal :: Dismal (a.) Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place..

Umbilication :: Umbilication (n.) A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated..

Sinker :: Sinker (n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles..

Wilt :: Wilt (v. t.) Hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Faint :: Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.

Moody :: Moody (superl.) Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed..

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