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to depress

to depress

10 4.8
To make prices, levels, or activity fall
  • verb
  • /dɪˈprɛs/
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  • Unstable political conditions are also likely to boost risk estimates and depress the value of Polish industrial enterprises.
  • depress prices
  • depress wages
  • depress income

And So what happens is they depress their emotions.

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Examples

  • Curbs on home heating and lighting depress workforce capability; hence, the energy crisis continues.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Increased production without corresponding demand can depress market prices significantly.

  • The board's using him to depress the stock to buy it cheap.

    The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

  • For the other school assessments, creativity did not add to performance and even appeared to depress results.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Budgets often remain low; however, because with an enormous pool of cheap talent, companies can depress wages.

    Academic text (2017)

  • More tangibly, they probably have helped depress the achievement and mobility potential of the group's young.

    Academic text (1996)

  • We know that work outside the home both delays and depresses childbearing.

    Academic text (1993)

  • External sanctions, in turn, would aggravate anxiety among investors, further depressing Venezuela's economy.

    Academic text (2001)

  • New sawmills were banned in 1987, which meant less competition among buyers, depressing incomes for suppliers.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The mining of shale gas in the United States freed up LNG shipments to Europe, depressing prices.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

to lower
vsto depress
802 1.0

Make something go down in position, amount, or strength

focuses more on causing price or activity falls rather than simple movement
to reduce
vsto depress
162 2.1

To make something weaker or in a worse state

is used for causing lower amounts or levels rather than changing status
to bring down
vsto depress
89 3.0

Make an amount or level lower

causes such falls often through wider economic pressure
to abate
vsto depress
23 6.8

To become less strong or severe and to make something do the same

focuses on lowering measurable levels like prices or activity instead
to deflate
vsto depress
  • Specialized
5 5.1

To make prices or economic activity go down

has same effect but applies beyond economies as well

How Low

to collapse
579 3.9
to plummet
93 5.8
to depress
10 4.8
to lower
802 1.0
to reduce
∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

depress infinitive
depressed past
depressed past participle
depressing present participle
depresses third person singular

Morphology

depress = press (semi-transparent) = de + press

The idea of lowering something can be connected to 'press' with a downward prefix, but this economic or quantitative sense is not a fully predictable everyday derivation for most learners.

Etymology

Depress comes from the parts de- 'down' and press 'to push'. So to depress prices or activity is to 'push them down', which is why it means to make things fall or become lower.