Kaufman and Hart wrote You Can't Take It With You during the Depression, but to paraphrase a Stephen Sondheim lyric in reference to the Vanderhof home occupants, "In the depression are they depressed?
When other recent booms collapsed — in the United States, for instance — they depressed entire economies.
The ice sheets were so heavy that they depressed the crust of the earth, pushing it down into the mantle.
Holden lights a cigarette and tries to explain, but can't get much further than saying that the school was full of phonies and they depressed him.
Moreover, it is possible that employer fears of future regulatory and tax costs would not depress employment even while they depressed wages to the degree that employees eagerly anticipate benefits they would receive from those regulations and taxes.
The Arab historian Chihab al-Umari, who visited Cairo 12 years later, wrote that Mansa Musa "left no emir or holder of a royal office without a gift or load of gold, he and his company gave out so much gold that they depressed its value in Egypt and caused its price to fall".
