Definition of Depresses

1. Verb. (third-person singular of depress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Depresses

1. depress [v] - See also: depress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Depresses

deprehends
deprehensible
deprehension
deprehensions
deprenyl
deprenyls
depress
depressable
depressant
depressants
depressed
depressed fracture
depressed skull fracture
depressedly
depressedness
depresses (current term)
depressible
depressing
depressingly
depressingness
depression
depression of optic disk
depressional
depressionary
depressionless
depressionlike
depressions
depressive
depressive disorder
depressive neurosis

Literary usage of Depresses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"the front cams elevates the balls, whereas a rise of the rear cams depresses them, the two component waves will meet in the same phase at the origin when ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"the front came elevates the balls, whereas a rise of the rear cams depresses them, the two component waves will meet in the same phase at the origin when ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the balance ia brought to the sighted position, thus ascertain how far the weight of v> grammes depresses the distance above A equal to that just found. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1865)
"A name frequently given to the depressor anguli oris, from its triangular shape. depresses the ribs, and is a muscle of ex- ..."

5. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... and rarely causes gastrointestinal irritation or other disagreeable symptoms, but a very large dose depresses the heart and lowers the blood pressure. ..."

6. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes, William Albert Noyes (1906)
"These experiments on the heart of Limulus brought out the fact that hypertonicity of the medium depresses the rhythm ..."

7. Therapeutic Gazette (1891)
"Curare apparently depresses or paralyzes an accelerator heat centre, leaving intact the automatic heat centre. PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY OF ..."

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