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Depression(money)
Depression(finance)
Depression(health)
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depression(encyclopedia)
depression(dictionary)
Depression, the(dictionary)
Great Depression(encyclopedia)
spreading depression(medicine)

depression (iou)



depression noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French depression or Latin depressio(n-), from depress-: see DEPRESS, -ION.]
Astronomy etc. Angular distance below the horizon or a horizontal plane. LME.
Defeat, suppression; degradation. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
Dejection, melancholy, low spirits. LME.
George Eliot In a state of deep depression, overmastered by those distasteful miserable memories.
b. Medicine. A pathological state of excessive melancholy, characterized by a mood of hopelessness, with feelings of inadequacy, and sometimes physical symptoms. E20.
G. Priestland Depression..has little to do with the perfectly normal experience of 'feeling a bit depressed'.
Lowering in physical position, sinking; the action of pressing down; the fact or condition of being pressed down. M17.
A sunken place on the ground or other surface; a hollow. M17.
D. Nobbs The depression left in the upholstery by her recently-departed bottom.
(A) reduction in quality, vigour, amount, activity, etc.; spec. (a) severe and prolonged decline in economic activity, a slump. L18.
the Depression the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.
J. D. MacDonald A whole world on the slide into depression.
b. Lowering of pitch of the voice, a note, etc. M19.
An atmospheric region or weather system marked by relatively low barometric pressure; = CYCLONE 1c. L19.