depress.
To press down.
Meaning & usage
To press down.
Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
To make depressed, sad or bored.
Winter depresses me.
To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English depressen, from Old French depresser, from Latin dēpressus, perfect participle of dēprimō (“to press down, to weigh down”), from dē- (“off, away, down, out”) + premō (“to press”).
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