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Antonyms for depresses
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dih-pres |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈprɛs |
- activate
- admire
- aid
- approve
- assist
- calm
- cheer
- comfort
- compliment
- delight
- elevate
- encourage
- energize
- enhance
- enlarge
- exalt
- excite
- expand
- extend
- flatter
- grow
- hearten
- help
- honor
- improve
- increase
- inspirit
- invigorate
- laud
- lift
- make happy
- order
- please
- praise
- push up
- raise
- rise
- soothe
- stimulate
- strengthen
- upgrade
- uplift
Definition of depresses
Origin :- early 14c., "put down by force," from Old French depresser, from Late Latin depressare, frequentative of Latin deprimere "press down," from de- "down" (see de-) + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)).
- Meaning "push down physically" is from early 15c.; that of "deject, make gloomy" is from 1620s; economic sense of "lower in value" is from 1878. Related: Depressed; depressing.
- verb deject, make despondent; exhaust
- verb devalue
- verb push down
- It is the mechanical nature of the affair that so depresses me.
- Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke
- Every breath of wind, every wave, every cloud, agitates and depresses us.
- Extract from : « Life and Times of David » by Charles Henry Mackintosh
- Because it depresses you, and I do not see the sense of causing you pain.
- Extract from : « Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) » by Charles Paul de Kock
- It is so antique and dismal that it depresses me dreadfully.
- Extract from : « The Hardy Country » by Charles G. Harper
- And it depresses me when I am at the office at night to think of you as lonely.
- Extract from : « The Great God Success » by John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
- But we needn't have the top on at all, if it depresses your spirits.
- Extract from : « A Foregone Conclusion » by William Dean Howells
- There is a kind of pressure that exhilarates us, and an absence of pressure that depresses us.
- Extract from : « Under the Maples » by John Burroughs
- It depresses the nervous system, especially the spinal cord.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 » by Various
- It is not increase in number of exchanges that depresses prices.
- Extract from : « The Value of Money » by Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.
- The priesthood accepted the depreciation which depresses and paralyses the will.
- Extract from : « The Priestly Vocation » by Bishop Bernard Ward
Synonyms for depresses
- abase
- afflict
- ail
- bear down
- beat
- beat down
- bother
- bug
- bum out
- cast down
- cheapen
- chill
- couch
- cow
- damp
- dampen
- darken
- daunt
- debase
- debilitate
- degrade
- demit
- depreciate
- desolate
- devitalize
- diminish
- dip
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- dispirit
- distress
- disturb
- downgrade
- drag
- drain
- droop
- dull
- enervate
- faze
- flatten
- impair
- keep under
- lessen
- let down
- level
- lower
- mock
- mortify
- oppress
- perturb
- press
- press down
- put down
- reduce
- reduce to tears
- run down
- sadden
- sap
- scorn
- settle
- sink
- slow
- smoosh
- squash
- throw cold water on
- torment
- trouble
- try
- turn one off
- upset
- weaken
- weary
- weigh down
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