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    1. Even in ordinary and quiet times, it is the interest of the holders of receipts to depress the agio, in order either to buy bank money (and consequently the bullion which their receipts would then enable them to take out of the bank ) so much cheaper, or to sell their receipts to those who have bank money, and who want to take out bullion, so much dearer ; the price of a receipt being generally equal to the difference between the market price of bank money and that of the coin or bullion for which the receipt had been granted


    2. It has been shown in the foregoing part of this work, that the effect of these regulations has been to depress the price of English wool, not only below what it naturally would be in the present times, but very much below what it actually was in the time of Edward III


    3. To depress the price of this commodity below what may be called its natural and proper price, was the avowed purpose of those regulations ; and there seems to be no doubt of their having produced the effect that was expected from them


    4. He was not only disposed, like other European ministers, to encourage more the industry of the towns than that of the country; but, in order to support the industry of the towns, he was willing even to depress and keep down that of the country


    5. Smite or heal, depress me or raise me up: I adore all your purposes without knowing them


    6. Religious festivals depress me


    7. It sounded sad and depress


    8. depress the sufferer, but to help him to raise himself from the slime of his


    9. These silent rooms and halls with their gleaming green clusters of ornaments and burning crimson floors were beginning to depress her


    10. this damned weather would depress a Saint! Just three more weeks and

    11. stay away from activities that will depress or otherwise


    12. � None of the German gunners had a chance to fire, the British craft passing so close that the battlecruiser�s guns could not depress low enough to bring their fire to bear


    13. All else had the potential to depress


    14. This didn’t depress Oleo’s mood, however


    15. Look to their double standards, that you became nuclear power and threatened others with your might but when a Muslim country tries to acquire this power,you and your allies rush to depress that country and to threaten that country and de cap its efforts by imposing economic and other restriction on it, why these double standards…?


    16. by the shareholders and analysts and thus depress a share price


    17. Now what happens is, we allow it to settle on us, things which depress us, fill us with grief, cause a fear of rejection


    18. It didn’t really depress me physically, but more spiritually


    19. She sagged against the glass window as her thoughts slowly began to depress her


    20. tended to depress him; they didn't have the greatest of

    21. Depress the bubble wrap rather than popping it


    22. Instruct the patient to depress their shoulder while keeping their elbow and hand on the table


    23. Instruct the patient to depress their shoulders


    24. Instruct the patient to depress their shoulders while keeping their elbows extended


    25. This reality can depress the price if you are a seller


    26. While a bankruptcy will depress it even further, at least it will


    27. 'This stuffy room is enough to depress anybody,' I said


    28. So Fred had found the box, had made an important discovery, and yet he managed just now to sadden and depress himself! That was stupid!


    29. When a person feels joyful, and full of goodness, some want to depress them with bad intentions


    30. of this pedal unless it says "una corda," which means to depress

    31. The clerk then told Carla to depress the blue button and immediately release it


    32. depress the red button on the top of the watch


    33. depress the blue button again and release it


    34. Depress that yellow button for


    35. After changing stations depress the red


    36. button again twice in rapid succession and it turns the device off then depress the red button again and it comes back on at the lowest volume level


    37. activities to serotonin receptors, thereby decreasing the risk of depress,


    38. Do not depress yourself with the idea that you are not progressing


    39. this means one that doesn’t go when you depress the accelerator


    40. Pushing slightly he felt the center of the forehead depress slightly into the head of the skull and then he discovered that it could turn

    41. I felt the bed depress a little and then a little hand hesitantly pressing on my back, as she scooted on top


    42. Nothing happened for a moment and then a series of groans sounded, as the stone weights began to depress and our barge began to move


    43. It is also important to understand that narcotic drugs tend to depress the reflexes that cause a person to breathe


    44. She didn’t want to admit, even to herself, just how much the aging of her face really did genuinely depress her


    45. Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?


    46. It was beginning to depress her


    47. Outside the windows, a cold early-afternoon rain—not yet the bitter cold of winter, but enough to chill the bone and depress the heart—fell heavily, beating against the diamond-paned windows, and a coal fire hissed on the grate


    48. "Yes—well, my father had been talking a good deal to me of his troubles and difficulties, and the subject always tends to depress me


    49. "Still, don't let it depress you


    50. Fred Vincy, we have seen, had a debt on his mind, and though no such immaterial burthen could depress that buoyant-hearted young gentleman for many hours together, there were circumstances connected with this debt which made the thought of it unusually importunate



















    1. Children who are not motivated are down, depressed,


    2. Always remember to share both sides with them, so they don’t get too uppity or too depressed


    3. when you as a kid were having a sad and depressed look


    4. automotive empire splashed disconsolately towards the rear of the vehicle, depressed


    5. I occasionally meet Mandy (aunt Hermione's extremely boring niece: the only thing she does is answer ''yes'' or ''no'' to my questions), Lena (an incredibly dull, married hen: I visit her once a week, and as soon as I get there she starts helping her sons with their homework; she won't stop until I leave) or Persephone (rather depressed, yet she is the only one with whom I have something to discuss)


    6. The driver of this last example of a long since fallen British automotive empire splashed disconsolately towards the rear of the vehicle, depressed the already sticking boot release with the heel of his right hand, and heaved at the tailgate with his left


    7. I've been trying not to act too depressed and irritable


    8. She was very depressed and he knew that the only reason she was still alive was out of a sense of duty to him


    9. That evening the heavens opened upon the world and, depressed by the rain and the generally gloomy outlook, the young man all but gave up hope of ever finding true happiness


    10. He pressed it and watched as the door depressed a few inches and silently slid to the left

    11. Being a woman there was nothing she could do and so she felt betrayed and sank into a deeply depressed state


    12. It was a terrible blow, he felt a complete fool; and he was depressed for months


    13. depressed for almost twenty years


    14. Nine Years Old, and Depressed


    15. review – they concluded that my son was depressed


    16. That evening the heavens opened upon the world and, depressed


    17. He had been too depressed all the while she was with him this time


    18. and depressed than on their last visit


    19. The bar looks like a waiting room for the terminally depressed, somewhere that the Grim Reaper might park his latest charges while he goes off to collect the rest of the damned


    20. " He sounded so depressed she couldn't just let him stand there

    21. After a while I was too depressed to even try


    22. This is a depressed time for me because people I loaned money to have not paid it back and I don't have a job yet


    23. All these things bug me and make me depressed


    24. She was so tired and probably depressed by the lunch hour situation that she took Thursday and Friday off


    25. Manny knew that Ming was depressed but was devastated by his decision to end his life


    26. Klowa was getting quite depressed by what he was hearing about Luray


    27. Taking into account the previous, could you go on as always, without feeling dumped on, angry, distressed, depressed, or whatever negative, violent, or other emotions that might pop up in your mind? Would this affect you just a little, somewhat, or perhaps a lot? In other words, how dependent are you on these things to have a rich and fulfilling life? More specifically, how dependent are you on external factors, as opposed to being internally centered and in tune with yourself and your loved ones to be able to feel whole, relaxed, and satisfied with your Earthly existence?


    28. His face had a dark, depressed appearance


    29. He therefore also knew that Phil was chronically depressed and had an addiction to chips and mayonnaise - a favoured dish in the area


    30. However, when people fail to secure the coveted high ranking posts, they end up feeling inferior and depressed

    31. During the session, the host got a caller who seemed extremely depressed and could be heard crying, during the conversation


    32. On the other hand, if we were to focus too much attention on the drama, we may feel utterly depressed and or even flare up in temper


    33. The Portuguese carried on the trade both to Africa and the East Indies, without any exclusive companies; and their settlements at Congo, Angola, and Benguela, on the coast of Africa, and at Goa in the East Indies though much depressed by superstition and every sort of bad government, yet bear some resemblance to the colonies of America, and are partly inhabited by Portuguese who have been established there for several generations


    34. She reached in a pocket on her sleeve and pulled out a thin, silver colored card and depressed the edge with her thumb


    35. ” I looked at him again and thought fucking hell do Elijah and I look as worn out and depressed as this bloke does if so we must look like we had been dug up from the grave and dumped here for god’s sake he was only twenty but looked as old as time itself


    36. This suited me down to the ground as I had gotten bored and depressed I loved the girls dearly but home had changed and even more so with Ma being gone


    37. was depressed and disappointed


    38. Defeated, empty and depressed


    39. skeleton of the sculpture a depressed artist made with leather stretched over it


    40. Alex was bored and she was depressed

    41. He crushed the beer can, got himself another, popped it open and said, “it was like he was depressed or something


    42. Esther could see that there was no point in discussing anything further with Nathan, he was done-in and depressed, better to leave it for now


    43. Suddenly, I was depressed


    44. At chest level on the left side, she found a crease in the mortar that depressed when touched


    45. Some, the Rooinekke specifically, did not appreciate the above though, and were fairly depressed at being abnormally bald at age eighteen


    46. My feelings made me depressed about someone making me think mine and Dorothy‘s life had been invaded the same if someone had broke into your house putting you in a position where you can‘t‘ defend yourself


    47. I walked all the way home so depressed and crying so bad because this was not the picture I had always carried around for the day I would retire


    48. Jack saw that I was depressed and down in the dumps


    49. The old badger exhaled heavily as he rose, weary and depressed


    50. If you consistently disappoint your children then they can get depressed about it














































    1. Zitteraal depresses the door handle and pushes the door open slowly


    2. The militant grins, gives his friend a look and calmly reaches up and depresses a button on the weapon


    3. You will find that the resistance finger depresses


    4. In the moment that his thumb depresses the switch and light blossoms in the kitchen Ted's faith in boundaries is shaken to the core


    5. A thumb depresses a plunger


    6. It depresses me that we can only write to each other


    7. Depresses me that we can only write


    8. The monopoly of the colony trade, therefore, like all the other mean and malignant expedients of the mercantile system, depresses the industry of all other countries, but chiefly that of the colonies, without in the least increasing, but on the contrary diminishing, that of the country in whose favour it is


    9. it’s the work ethic which depresses me


    10. don't know about, the weather depresses even the

    11. When the conscious mind is unable to detect what is diseasing The Body Connected, it depresses the system to both allow itself the space and force the mind to take an appraisal between one's own self-created goals and the culture of gravities that perpetually attract the attention of their thought, time, and activity


    12. that sleep loss depresses the immune system, to the point where


    13. Heroin is a habit-forming narcotic so powerful it depresses the central nervous system and puts the user in a temporary euphoric state


    14. She has taught him well, and the thought depresses me – there’s nothing I can teach him


    15. The thought of an imminent war depresses people


    16. More shares outstanding means dilution, and this depresses stock prices


    17. "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town


    18. It depresses the breathing, indeed may stop it altogether


    19. But supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them, capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale, as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too, the otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated out of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its envelope; considering the unique interior of his head; it has hypothetically occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and unsuspected connexion with the outer air, so as to be susceptible to atmospheric distension and contraction


    20. Then holding the lance full before his waistband's middle, he levels it at the whale; when, covering him with it, he steadily depresses the butt-end in his hand, thereby elevating the point till the weapon stands fairly balanced upon his palm, fifteen feet in the air

    21. The price of all stocks, and every kind of produce and species of property must suffer a great depression, for a scarcity of money enhances its value, and consequently depresses the value of every other species of property


    1. That puts a depressing lid on my spirits which even the sunshine cannot lift


    2. Good relations restored, suddenly the rain looks a lot less depressing


    3. that is on the depressing side


    4. The lab is depressing, but Doctor Jasari has yet to make a comment


    5. In their spare time they go to the gym and try to impress young women in that depressing way that forty-year-old alpha males have


    6. It’s depressing you know


    7. It’s a small and cold world really, depressing with violence and pestilence


    8. “That comes from hanging around with such depressing people this past week or two


    9. One depressing thing I saw today was the way two of my friends treated their wives


    10. his foot to the floorboard and the Pinto was wound out at a depressing seventy-five

    11. the privilege, and were housed in the most depressing,


    12. The realisation was depressing, and his


    13. Of inspiration was depressing; almost shocking: Maybe she could masturbate in front


    14. It is depressing


    15. The story of Danny the Dumpster’s travails could be easily continued and amplified with much more depressing and devastating detail, but that likely is not necessary since the same kinds of stories—just changing the actors and scenarios—are to be found throughout the plains, hills, mountains, and valleys on every continent of our planet


    16. He hoped to rid himself of further depressing thoughts about that matter, yet he was in no condition to embrace denial


    17. The skies were painted almost completely grey, casting a dark, depressing aura over the city of Ravenwey Burrows


    18. He breathed in the crisp evening air and it seemed to clear his mind of any depressing thoughts


    19. She could see this squabble was having a depressing effect on her


    20. This advantage, however, will, perhaps, be found to be rather what may be called a relative than an absolute advantage, and to give a superiority to the country which enjoys it, rather by depressing the industry and produce of other countries, than by raising those of that particular country above what they would naturally rise to in the case of a free trade

    21. A half a loaf is better than none at all - this became her philosophy - and while it was admittedly a depressing sort of thing, she managed to live with it


    22. “Well, yeh, they were depressing times no doubt, but that guy was a genius, for his time


    23. For a few depressing seconds there was nothing but a faint hiss from the speaker, then suddenly a female voice replied, sounding slightly raspy through the speaker


    24. ” The lads left after saying their goodbyes to Archie and the ward seemed a sadder place for their leaving and I would be glad to get out of here as it was getting a bit depressing now


    25. I stepped down onto the platform and it seemed to be a dirty shade of grey and with the rain sweeping across in a curtain of silver droplets it was dismal and depressing I shivered for I was unused to the cold and had no greatcoat for warmth


    26. As we moved along a heavy rain started and this had a depressing effect on us not only were we getting coated in mud now but rain was running down our necks


    27. “That’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard…” Raven hated Andre more by the second for the smooth way he had entered into this argument and the way he argued calmly, without the fluster Raven was working himself into


    28. Avoid or limit watching the news or activities that are depressing


    29. The downward journey was more depressing than the advance, though everyone was anxiously looking forward to returning home again


    30. 1 gun was swung into position, and the layer looked over his sights, depressing the piece a trifle

    31. But could I last a few more months? I looked around at the contents of my office, which, truth be told, was so very unwelcoming and so incredibly depressing


    32. I tried to smile, in spite of these depressing notions


    33. But it turned out it was bad luck, because if we hadn't seen the Bully Creek Reservoir site, we would have stopped at a dreary, depressing private campground a few miles further on


    34. How depressing! I’d harbored thoughts of


    35. This place is very depressing; it’s a sad place


    36. “Weinberg’s arena,” avers Berlinski, “is Elementary particles…A rather depressing place…Over there (in the Standard Model of particle physics), fields are pregnant with latent energy, particles flicker into existence and disappear, things are entangled, and no one can quite tell what is possible and what is actual, what is here and what is there, what is now and what was then, solid forms give way


    37. the whole, a sad and depressing reminder and proof of what once existed


    38. Historian and educator Jacques Barzun finds the results of that search to be not sublime but depressing


    39. Jaden realizes this is depressing him and he is beginning to sound a bit deranged


    40. To contemplate the work of such giants as Michelangelo, Beethoven, Mozart, Shakespeare, Confucius, Sophocles, Aristotle, Newton, or Einstein is a daunting, possibly depressing experience

    41. This is a rather depressing thought, unless we accept the possibility that we are all loved and can be forgiven!


    42. enough to remodel the pro's office, because it was pitiful and depressing


    43. This is indeed a depressing and shameful view for many Filipinos, proud of their beautiful country


    44. “Maybe it’s the racetrack; the thoughts of leaving could be depressing him


    45. “Were they as depressing as they were for me? The Saturdays?”


    46. depressing sort of rain that somehow forgets how to stop


    47. liberals have taken it upon themselves to live in such depressing compounds such as


    48. a second or two is what makes life complicated, and depressing, and


    49. depressing and lonely childhood, but in it I had not been raped or


    50. depressing to listen to the golden baby story from other














































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    Synonyms for "depress"

    depress press down lower cast down deject demoralise demoralize dismay dispirit get down grieve chill weary press dampen weigh down discourage sink dull squash drop settle dip reduce devalue abase abash mortify debase mock degrade

    "depress" definitions

    lower someone's spirits; make downhearted


    lower (prices or markets)


    cause to drop or sink


    press down


    lessen the activity or force of