Definition: 1. Press down. 2. Cause to drop or sink. 3. Make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected. 4. Push or pull (something) down into a lower position.
Use 'depress' in a sentence:
1. Losing his job really depressed him.
2. They help to depress auction prices.
3. It just depresses me to lose customers because of this.
4. In order to depress the noise, a lock-in differential conductance measurement system is designed.
5. To use the extinguisher, you pull out the safety pin and depress the operating lever.
6. I know he is too optimistic but I don't want to depress him.
7. The recession has depressed the housing market.
8. Subsidies allow growers to undercut competitors and depress world prices.
9. The atmosphere began to depress me.
10. I must admit the state of the country depresses me.
11. The stronger U.S. dollar depressed sales.
12. These news depressed her.
13. It depresses me to see so many young girls smoking.
14. Wet weather always depresses me.
15. He just did not have the weight to depress the lever.
16. Your thumb will depress the magazine release lever as you grasp the magazine.
