Depress

Definition of depress:

part of speech: noun

Depressor.

part of speech: verb

To press down; lower; cast down.

part of speech: verb

To press or thrust down; sadden; lower or cheapen; make dull, as trade.

part of speech: adverb

DEPRESSINGLY.

Usage examples for depress:

• Depress your muzzle, Mr Webster! "The Golden Rock", Ernest Glanville.

• To travel day after day, among trees of a hundred feet high, is oppressive to a degree which those cannot conceive who have not experienced it; and it must depress the spirits of the solitary settler to pass years in this state. "The Paths of Inland Commerce A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, Volume 21 in The Chronicles of America Series", Archer B. Hulbert.

• Yet, as the strongest bodies are those which can equally well support the extremes of heat and cold, so the noblest minds are those which prosperity does not render insolent and overbearing, nor ill fortune depress and here Aemilius appears more nearly to approach absolute perfection, as, when in great misfortune and grief for his children, he showed the same dignity and firmness as after the greatest success. "Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)", Plutarch.

• No matter how much they tried to depress or to stimulate the market, some new and strange factor seemed to be at work bringing their calculations to naught, and when it became known to them that the mere expression of a wish on the part of Wilbraham would send stocks kiting into the air or crashing into the depths, no matter what they might do, they began to worry. "Jack and the Check Book", John Kendrick Bangs.