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Depressed   /dɪprˈɛst/   Listen
verb
Depress  v. t.  (past & past part. depressed; pres. part. depressing)  
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. "With lips depressed."
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.
(Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
To depress the pole (Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.
Synonyms: To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage.


adjective
Depressed  adj.  
1.
Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
2.
(Bot.)
(a)
Concave on the upper side; said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
(b)
Lying flat; said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.
3.
(Zool.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.





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"Depressed" Quotes from Famous Books



... slow in availing myself of the permission; nor was Tristan sorry to find a substitute. He was a dull, depressed-looking boy, not over communicative as to his functions, merely telling me that I was to follow the others—that I came fourth in the line—to answer when my name was called "Tristan," and to put the money I received in my leathern pocket, ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... Depressed patients have felt, wrongly or rightly, a certain excitation after a certain action. Through some curious mechanism, certain acts, instead of exhausting them, have raised their psychological tension. The need, the desire to raise themselves inspires them with the wish ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various
... or moved at death, elated or depressed? It cannot give anything, nor take. Every sphere satisfies its desires by its hopes, and so seems to show that life is only an effort at equilibrium. At least it does show that to this state. There is a perpetual balance in every experience, never a permanence, as night follows day, but never ...
— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke
... little indignant at such a notion, but he was too much depressed in spirits to argue; so he only ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley
... o'clock in the morning I rose and went on deck. The watch had been relieved, the weather also looked brighter, as if it were going to clear up, and I became still more depressed. Bramble soon followed me. ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat


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