depress
/dɪˈpɹɛs/ verbe C1En français : appuyer
- 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.
He/she/it depresses · Prétérit depressed · Participe passé depressed · Forme en -ing depressing
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- depress
- He/she/it
- depresses
- Prétérit
- depressed
- Participe passé
- depressed
- Forme en -ing
- depressing
Dans la bibliothèque
But I feel so depressed that perhaps it will come easy to me now.
It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had been thus self-attracted by the rest of her family; and as she considered that Jane’s disappointment had, in fact, been the work of her nearest relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.
When to these recollections was added the development of Wickham’s character, it may be easily believed that the happy spirits which had seldom been depressed before were now so much affected as to make it almost impossible for her to appear tolerably cheerful.
And yet for all his watchfulness he was never depressed.
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