Sentence examples for depress from inspiring English sources

"depress" is a word in English that is used in both spoken and written English
In general, it is used to refer to a feeling of being very sad or despondent. For example, "After she lost her job, she became very depressed."

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depress

verb

To press down.

  • Depress the upper lever to start the machine.

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As if the blow from the financial crisis were not enough, he managed to depress confidence even further.

Long waits for connections aren't acceptable and depress rail travel.

The collapse in confidence that would follow a Greek departure could also hit demand and depress growth right across the eurozone – a risk for British firms dependent on exports to this key market.

Lucas will talk about public expenditure and the need to avoid cutbacks that will further depress the economy and hurt the poor most.

Ukip may also help to depress the Conservatives' tally.

An inquest recorded a verdict of misadventure after finding that she had 416mg of alcohol per decilitre in her blood – more than five times the legal drink-drive limit and enough to make her comatose and depress her respiratory system.

But it will just depress the hell out of me.

2) slowing growth rates in the smartphone and tablet markets which are expected to depress Arm's royalty growth 3) The high multiples the stock is trading at relative to its longer term growth outlook.

George Collier, another doctor, affirmed that graveyard miasma would "depress, impair and enervate the human frame", and was a predisposing cause of fever of the "low typhoid kind".

In the end, she contended, the Irish government will have to default by any other name by 2013 rather than continue to force more financial pain on its citizens and further depress the economy.

In North Carolina, where the party won the statehouse in 2010 for the first time in more than a century, it has moved to restrict abortion and passed a law restricting the types of identification accepted at polling stations, a measure which will probably depress turnout among the poor and black.

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