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deprest

deprest is the simple past and past participle of depress.

Meaning of depress

Verb

depress (third-person singular simple present depresses, present participle depressing, simple past and past participle depressed)

  1. To press down.
    • Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
    Synonyms:
    downbear, squash
  2. To make depressed, sad or bored.
    • Winter depresses me.
    Antonyms:
    cheer up
  3. To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
    • Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
  4. To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
  5. To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

Origin of deprest

depress + -t

Questions about deprest

What is deprest the simple past and past participle of?
Deprest is the simple past and past participle of depress.

Words near deprest in the dictionary

  1. depressurized
  2. depressurizer
  3. depressurizers
  4. depressurizes
  5. depressurizing
  6. deprest
  7. depretiate
  8. Deprey
  9. Depreys
  10. Deprez
  11. Deprezes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deprest (page history and authors); depress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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