1 to make sb sad and without enthusiasm or hope:
[VN] Wet weather always depresses me. * [VNtoinf] It depresses me to see so many young girls smoking.
2 [VN] to make trade, business, etc. less active:
The recession has depressed the housing market.
3 [VN] to lower the value of prices or wages:
to depress wages / prices
4 [VN] (formal) to press or push sth down, especially part of a machine:
to depress the clutch pedal (= when driving).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for depress is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is depress a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, depress is tagged as verb.
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