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What is the verb for depression?

What's the verb for depression? Here's the word you're looking for.

depress
  1. To press down.
  2. To make depressed, sad or bored.
  3. To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
  4. To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
  5. (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Make a habit of rejecting those thoughts that depress you.”
      “If you're using a touchpad or trackball mouse, use your thumb to depress the button to the left of the pad or ball.”
      “A rumor of pollution on the local beach is enough to depress the market value of all of the hotels in town.”
depressed
depressing
depresses
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depress
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It depresses me to think of people trying to sell papers by dredging up bad things or bad news.”
      “That depresses wage rates and rents, and brings us back to a more competitive position.”
      “The surgeon depresses the trumpet valve to instill and remove the fluid and air from the balloon.”
deprest
  1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of depress
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