Definition of depression in English:

depression

noun dɪˈprɛʃ(ə)ndəˈprɛʃ(ə)n

1mass noun Feelings of severe despondency and dejection.
self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression
Example sentencesExamples
- He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away.
- Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in.
- He had been battling depression for some time.
- Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable.
- Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
- I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair.
- Feelings of depression and despair are common.
- Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry.
- A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry.
- We have unprecedented depression and pessimism.
- Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts.
- Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression.
- Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression.
- People of all ages suffer from depression.
- A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital.
- Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment.
- We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery.
- Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression.
- Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
- Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair.
- Solutions for clinical depression are available.
- Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed.
- Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression.
- The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression.
- Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources.
- Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex.
- When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing.
- The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight.
- We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
- It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death.
Synonyms
melancholy, misery, sadness, unhappiness, sorrow, woe, gloom, gloominess, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, low spirits, heavy-heartedness, moroseness, discouragement, despair, desolation, dolefulness, moodiness, pessimism, hopelessness
the slough of despond
upset, tearfulness
informal the dumps, the doldrums, the blues, one's black dog, a low
North American informal the blahs, a funk, a blue funk
informal, dated the mopes
technical clinical depression, endogenous depression, reactive depression, postnatal depression, dysthymia, melancholia
literary dolour
archaic the megrims
rare mopery, disconsolateness, disconsolation
1. 1.1Psychiatry A mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep.
  she was referred by a psychiatrist treating her for depression
  Example sentencesExamples
  Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed.
  Solutions for clinical depression are available.
  Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair.
  We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery.
  Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment.
  Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression.
  A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry.
  People of all ages suffer from depression.
  I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair.
  Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
  Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression.
  Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts.
  We have unprecedented depression and pessimism.
  He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away.
  Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry.
  It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death.
  We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
  Feelings of depression and despair are common.
  Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex.
  Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable.
  He had been battling depression for some time.
  Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in.
  The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight.
  The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression.
  When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing.
  Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
  A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital.
  Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources.
  Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression.
  Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression.
2A long and severe recession in an economy or market.
萧条
the depression in the housing market
房产市场的萧条。
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet, the final outcome - an economic depression - would have been exactly the same.
- It has lasted for a long time, through depressions, recessions, slumps, civil wars and world wars.
- Just as the mass extinctions were associated with climatic shifts, depressions and recessions often reflect changing economic conditions.
- Most of the worst recessions and depressions occur the year following an election.
- They tolerated the gyrations of the business cycle more willingly, including dozens of recessions and several deep economic depressions.
- It also generates the periodic crises characteristic of capitalism - what we call recessions and depressions.
- For example, he considers economic depressions to be the intensification of the competitive process.
- They were the first to deal with the issue in a systematic way and to apply their conclusions to the problem of economic depressions.
- He also argued that economic depressions stimulated goldmining by lowering costs and releasing labour for prospecting.
- Despite the severity of the depression in the international economy, standards of living did not show correspondingly steep falls.
- Only in 1930-31 did it become apparent that the world was in the throes of a prolonged and deep depression.
- After a prolonged agricultural depression lifted in the 1890s, the worst of rural poverty was finally dispelled.
- The severe and prolonged depression of the 1890's resulted in the decline of the slate industry and only a few men were employed.
- Running big federal deficits in hard economic times is one of those ‘automatic stabilizers’ that help keep recessions from turning into depressions.
- This turned what might have been a short recession into the greatest depression in the nation's history.
- They have developed a close relationship between stock market crashes and the economic recessions and depressions that follow them.
- According to him, the original estimate did take into account periodic recessions and depressions in the stock market.
- The prolonged depression of the 1880s increased the pressure for change.
- These are the people responsible for recessions and depressions.
- Consistent with the above foundation of basic principle, the advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that depressions are not the result of anything inherent in the economic system.
Synonyms
recession, slump, decline, downturn, slowdown, standstill
paralysis, inactivity, stagnation, credit crunch, credit squeeze
hard times, bad times
technical stagflation
1. 2.1 The financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.
  （1929年及随后几年的）大萧条
3mass noun The action of lowering something or pressing something down.
按下，推压
depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin
推压注射器柱塞注入两个单位的胰岛素。
Example sentencesExamples
- Slight depression of the clutch stops the tractor's forward motion, while full depression stops the PTO action.
- The control signal or input for brake release may therefore be generated or relate to accelerator depression, clutch engagement or gear selection.
- It is to your advantage to accept any kind of price depression short-term which provides a high operating rate.
- But since the mid-1990s, the cotton market has experienced chronic price depression.
- The depression of prices, and above all profits, was the driving force behind the transformation of production processes in this period.
- Complete depression of the pedal removes all output torque, whilst gradual release of the pedal leads to progressive torque introduction.
- Overall, the price depression has predisposed subsistence farmers to serious problems of survival and financial constraints.
- The depression of the clutch pedal lets the force from the pressure plate's spring to release and allow the discs to move and rotate.
- Emergency braking techniques are taught at an early stage of driver training and require rapid and forceful depression of the brake pedal and then the clutch pedal.
- One factory cited a continuous price depression of about 10-15% (or a year on 5% decrease) in the past few years.
1. 3.1count noun A sunken place or hollow on a surface.
  凹面，低凹处
  the original shallow depressions were slowly converted to creeks
  原来的浅浅的低凹处慢慢变成了一条条小溪。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It would have blended seamlessly into the wall if it weren't for the circular depressions embedded on its surface.
  These tiny flowers offer nectar in a shallow median depression on the lip surface.
  The images relayed from the probe were not much more exciting - some low hills and surface depressions.
  The presence of shallow depressions in the ground surface allows time for water to percolate into the soil and reduces the volume and speed of flow across the slope.
  In the idling zone the surface includes a plurality of shallow depressions disposed in an annular zone.
  Using the back of a spoon, make a shallow depression in the centre, and build up the sides as high as you can.
  It over looked some sort of depression in the land.
  Specially engineered depressions in the surface of the inner skin eliminate the need for a separate welded-on reinforcement to increase panel rigidity.
  Stigmaeopsis mites construct extremely dense oval woven roofs over depressions on the lower surfaces of host leaves.
  It is usually sunken into a depression so that the rim is level with the ground.
  The proximal half of the ventral surface forms a long depression.
  Magnetic vortices moving back and forth inside depressions on a superconducting surface could serve as single-particle bits for a nanoscale computer.
  Nests are usually shallow depressions in a muddy or sandy bottom in which the eggs are deposited.
  The stone includes a depression on its concave surface where the practitioner's finger was inserted in order to assist in applying force.
  A lush habitat appears where surface water accumulates in shallow depressions to form seasonal or fairly permanent ponds.
  The original site was a depression adjoining the river, which automatically became a swamp frequented by water birds in the wet times.
  On the western end of the beach is a large, grassy mound with a shallow depression in the top. This is the site of a prehistoric fortification, or broch.
  Implants are generally not attached to the underlying structures because they are made with depressions on the under surface to fit over the anatomic areas on which they are inserted.
  Reduced infiltration will cause water ponding for longer periods following rainfall on a field with surface depressions.
  Multiple depressions dotted the surface of the sandy riverbank, as if it had taken on the look of the surface of a golf ball.
  Synonyms
  hollow, indentation, dent, dint, cavity, concavity, dip, pit, hole, pothole, sink, sinkhole, excavation, trough, crater
  valley, basin, bowl
  Anatomy fossa, lacuna
4Meteorology
A region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system.
〔气象〕低（气）压区（尤指旋风系统）
hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions
Example sentencesExamples
- Frontal systems associated with depressions traveling eastwards across the ocean have a significant influence on the weather in southern South Australia during this season.
- In middle latitudes, belts of west-travelling cyclones or depressions bring rain to areas of hundreds of square kilometres.
- Cyclonic weather with a depression centred over the UK can cause unsettled conditions in both winter and summer.
- Rainfall in the savannah region usually arrives between November and April in heavy bursts from monsoonal depressions or tropical cyclones.
- The most significant features of the wet season are thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and rain depressions.
5Geography Astronomy
The angular distance of an object below the horizon or a horizontal plane.
〔天文，地理〕俯角，俯视角
Example sentencesExamples
- After sunset, as the depression of the sun increases the sky gets darker and darker until no scattered light reaches the observer.
- Angular depressions at the base of siltstone laminae represent casts of halite that was dissolved by lower-salinity waters that introduced silt.
- Thus various stages of twilight are defined in terms of the solar depression angle, in degrees.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin depressio(n-), from deprimere 'press down' (see depress).

Definition of depression in US English:

depression

noundəˈprɛʃ(ə)ndəˈpreSH(ə)n

1Feelings of severe despondency and dejection.
self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression
Example sentencesExamples
- Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in.
- Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex.
- A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry.
- Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed.
- Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression.
- The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression.
- Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry.
- People of all ages suffer from depression.
- Solutions for clinical depression are available.
- When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing.
- A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital.
- The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight.
- Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts.
- Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression.
- Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression.
- Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources.
- Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
- Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
- He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away.
- Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression.
- We have unprecedented depression and pessimism.
- We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery.
- Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair.
- Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment.
- We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
- Feelings of depression and despair are common.
- Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable.
- I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair.
- It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death.
- He had been battling depression for some time.
Synonyms
melancholy, misery, sadness, unhappiness, sorrow, woe, gloom, gloominess, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, low spirits, heavy-heartedness, moroseness, discouragement, despair, desolation, dolefulness, moodiness, pessimism, hopelessness
1. 1.1Psychiatry A mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep.
  she was referred by a psychiatrist treating her for depression
  Example sentencesExamples
  We have unprecedented depression and pessimism.
  Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression.
  Feelings of depression and despair are common.
  I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair.
  When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing.
  The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight.
  It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death.
  Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair.
  Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable.
  A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital.
  We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery.
  The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression.
  Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression.
  Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed.
  A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry.
  People of all ages suffer from depression.
  Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
  Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex.
  Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in.
  Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources.
  Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression.
  Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
  He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away.
  Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts.
  Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment.
  He had been battling depression for some time.
  We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
  Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry.
  Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression.
  Solutions for clinical depression are available.
2A long and severe recession in an economy or market.
萧条
the depression in the housing market
房产市场的萧条。
Example sentencesExamples
- They tolerated the gyrations of the business cycle more willingly, including dozens of recessions and several deep economic depressions.
- They were the first to deal with the issue in a systematic way and to apply their conclusions to the problem of economic depressions.
- It has lasted for a long time, through depressions, recessions, slumps, civil wars and world wars.
- They have developed a close relationship between stock market crashes and the economic recessions and depressions that follow them.
- Just as the mass extinctions were associated with climatic shifts, depressions and recessions often reflect changing economic conditions.
- Most of the worst recessions and depressions occur the year following an election.
- This turned what might have been a short recession into the greatest depression in the nation's history.
- The prolonged depression of the 1880s increased the pressure for change.
- He also argued that economic depressions stimulated goldmining by lowering costs and releasing labour for prospecting.
- Yet, the final outcome - an economic depression - would have been exactly the same.
- Consistent with the above foundation of basic principle, the advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that depressions are not the result of anything inherent in the economic system.
- The severe and prolonged depression of the 1890's resulted in the decline of the slate industry and only a few men were employed.
- It also generates the periodic crises characteristic of capitalism - what we call recessions and depressions.
- For example, he considers economic depressions to be the intensification of the competitive process.
- After a prolonged agricultural depression lifted in the 1890s, the worst of rural poverty was finally dispelled.
- These are the people responsible for recessions and depressions.
- Running big federal deficits in hard economic times is one of those ‘automatic stabilizers’ that help keep recessions from turning into depressions.
- Only in 1930-31 did it become apparent that the world was in the throes of a prolonged and deep depression.
- Despite the severity of the depression in the international economy, standards of living did not show correspondingly steep falls.
- According to him, the original estimate did take into account periodic recessions and depressions in the stock market.
Synonyms
recession, slump, decline, downturn, slowdown, standstill
1. 2.1the Depression" or "the Great Depression The financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.
  （1929年及随后几年的）大萧条
3The action of lowering something or pressing something down.
按下，推压
depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin
推压注射器柱塞注入两个单位的胰岛素。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is to your advantage to accept any kind of price depression short-term which provides a high operating rate.
- The depression of prices, and above all profits, was the driving force behind the transformation of production processes in this period.
- Complete depression of the pedal removes all output torque, whilst gradual release of the pedal leads to progressive torque introduction.
- The control signal or input for brake release may therefore be generated or relate to accelerator depression, clutch engagement or gear selection.
- Overall, the price depression has predisposed subsistence farmers to serious problems of survival and financial constraints.
- But since the mid-1990s, the cotton market has experienced chronic price depression.
- Emergency braking techniques are taught at an early stage of driver training and require rapid and forceful depression of the brake pedal and then the clutch pedal.
- Slight depression of the clutch stops the tractor's forward motion, while full depression stops the PTO action.
- The depression of the clutch pedal lets the force from the pressure plate's spring to release and allow the discs to move and rotate.
- One factory cited a continuous price depression of about 10-15% (or a year on 5% decrease) in the past few years.
1. 3.1 A sunken place or hollow on a surface.
  凹面，低凹处
  the original shallow depressions were slowly converted to creeks
  原来的浅浅的低凹处慢慢变成了一条条小溪。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Stigmaeopsis mites construct extremely dense oval woven roofs over depressions on the lower surfaces of host leaves.
  Using the back of a spoon, make a shallow depression in the centre, and build up the sides as high as you can.
  The stone includes a depression on its concave surface where the practitioner's finger was inserted in order to assist in applying force.
  It is usually sunken into a depression so that the rim is level with the ground.
  Reduced infiltration will cause water ponding for longer periods following rainfall on a field with surface depressions.
  The presence of shallow depressions in the ground surface allows time for water to percolate into the soil and reduces the volume and speed of flow across the slope.
  These tiny flowers offer nectar in a shallow median depression on the lip surface.
  In the idling zone the surface includes a plurality of shallow depressions disposed in an annular zone.
  Implants are generally not attached to the underlying structures because they are made with depressions on the under surface to fit over the anatomic areas on which they are inserted.
  It would have blended seamlessly into the wall if it weren't for the circular depressions embedded on its surface.
  It over looked some sort of depression in the land.
  Nests are usually shallow depressions in a muddy or sandy bottom in which the eggs are deposited.
  The proximal half of the ventral surface forms a long depression.
  The images relayed from the probe were not much more exciting - some low hills and surface depressions.
  On the western end of the beach is a large, grassy mound with a shallow depression in the top. This is the site of a prehistoric fortification, or broch.
  The original site was a depression adjoining the river, which automatically became a swamp frequented by water birds in the wet times.
  Magnetic vortices moving back and forth inside depressions on a superconducting surface could serve as single-particle bits for a nanoscale computer.
  Multiple depressions dotted the surface of the sandy riverbank, as if it had taken on the look of the surface of a golf ball.
  Specially engineered depressions in the surface of the inner skin eliminate the need for a separate welded-on reinforcement to increase panel rigidity.
  A lush habitat appears where surface water accumulates in shallow depressions to form seasonal or fairly permanent ponds.
  Synonyms
  hollow, indentation, dent, dint, cavity, concavity, dip, pit, hole, pothole, sink, sinkhole, excavation, trough, crater
4Meteorology
A region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system.
〔气象〕低（气）压区（尤指旋风系统）
hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions
Example sentencesExamples
- The most significant features of the wet season are thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and rain depressions.
- In middle latitudes, belts of west-travelling cyclones or depressions bring rain to areas of hundreds of square kilometres.
- Frontal systems associated with depressions traveling eastwards across the ocean have a significant influence on the weather in southern South Australia during this season.
- Rainfall in the savannah region usually arrives between November and April in heavy bursts from monsoonal depressions or tropical cyclones.
- Cyclonic weather with a depression centred over the UK can cause unsettled conditions in both winter and summer.
5Astronomy Geography
The angular distance of an object below the horizon or a horizontal plane.
〔天文，地理〕俯角，俯视角
Example sentencesExamples
- Angular depressions at the base of siltstone laminae represent casts of halite that was dissolved by lower-salinity waters that introduced silt.
- Thus various stages of twilight are defined in terms of the solar depression angle, in degrees.
- After sunset, as the depression of the sun increases the sky gets darker and darker until no scattered light reaches the observer.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin depressio(n-), from deprimere ‘press down’ (see depress).

词汇	depression
释义	Definition of depression in English: depression noun dɪˈprɛʃ(ə)ndəˈprɛʃ(ə)n 1mass noun Feelings of severe despondency and dejection. self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression Example sentencesExamples He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away. Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in. He had been battling depression for some time. Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable. Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast. I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair. Feelings of depression and despair are common. Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry. A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry. We have unprecedented depression and pessimism. Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts. Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression. Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression. People of all ages suffer from depression. A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital. Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment. We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery. Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression. Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression. Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair. Solutions for clinical depression are available. Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed. Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression. The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression. Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources. Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex. When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing. The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death. Synonyms melancholy, misery, sadness, unhappiness, sorrow, woe, gloom, gloominess, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, low spirits, heavy-heartedness, moroseness, discouragement, despair, desolation, dolefulness, moodiness, pessimism, hopelessness the slough of despond upset, tearfulness informal the dumps, the doldrums, the blues, one's black dog, a low North American informal the blahs, a funk, a blue funk informal, dated the mopes technical clinical depression, endogenous depression, reactive depression, postnatal depression, dysthymia, melancholia literary dolour archaic the megrims rare mopery, disconsolateness, disconsolation 1.1Psychiatry A mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep. she was referred by a psychiatrist treating her for depression Example sentencesExamples Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed. Solutions for clinical depression are available. Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair. We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery. Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment. Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression. A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry. People of all ages suffer from depression. I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair. Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast. Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression. Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts. We have unprecedented depression and pessimism. He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away. Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry. It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Feelings of depression and despair are common. Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex. Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable. He had been battling depression for some time. Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in. The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight. The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression. When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing. Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression. A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital. Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources. Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression. Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression. 2A long and severe recession in an economy or market. 萧条 the depression in the housing market 房产市场的萧条。 Example sentencesExamples Yet, the final outcome - an economic depression - would have been exactly the same. It has lasted for a long time, through depressions, recessions, slumps, civil wars and world wars. Just as the mass extinctions were associated with climatic shifts, depressions and recessions often reflect changing economic conditions. Most of the worst recessions and depressions occur the year following an election. They tolerated the gyrations of the business cycle more willingly, including dozens of recessions and several deep economic depressions. It also generates the periodic crises characteristic of capitalism - what we call recessions and depressions. For example, he considers economic depressions to be the intensification of the competitive process. They were the first to deal with the issue in a systematic way and to apply their conclusions to the problem of economic depressions. He also argued that economic depressions stimulated goldmining by lowering costs and releasing labour for prospecting. Despite the severity of the depression in the international economy, standards of living did not show correspondingly steep falls. Only in 1930-31 did it become apparent that the world was in the throes of a prolonged and deep depression. After a prolonged agricultural depression lifted in the 1890s, the worst of rural poverty was finally dispelled. The severe and prolonged depression of the 1890's resulted in the decline of the slate industry and only a few men were employed. Running big federal deficits in hard economic times is one of those ‘automatic stabilizers’ that help keep recessions from turning into depressions. This turned what might have been a short recession into the greatest depression in the nation's history. They have developed a close relationship between stock market crashes and the economic recessions and depressions that follow them. According to him, the original estimate did take into account periodic recessions and depressions in the stock market. The prolonged depression of the 1880s increased the pressure for change. These are the people responsible for recessions and depressions. Consistent with the above foundation of basic principle, the advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that depressions are not the result of anything inherent in the economic system. Synonyms recession, slump, decline, downturn, slowdown, standstill paralysis, inactivity, stagnation, credit crunch, credit squeeze hard times, bad times technical stagflation 2.1 The financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years. （1929年及随后几年的）大萧条 3mass noun The action of lowering something or pressing something down. 按下，推压 depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin 推压注射器柱塞注入两个单位的胰岛素。 Example sentencesExamples Slight depression of the clutch stops the tractor's forward motion, while full depression stops the PTO action. The control signal or input for brake release may therefore be generated or relate to accelerator depression, clutch engagement or gear selection. It is to your advantage to accept any kind of price depression short-term which provides a high operating rate. But since the mid-1990s, the cotton market has experienced chronic price depression. The depression of prices, and above all profits, was the driving force behind the transformation of production processes in this period. Complete depression of the pedal removes all output torque, whilst gradual release of the pedal leads to progressive torque introduction. Overall, the price depression has predisposed subsistence farmers to serious problems of survival and financial constraints. The depression of the clutch pedal lets the force from the pressure plate's spring to release and allow the discs to move and rotate. Emergency braking techniques are taught at an early stage of driver training and require rapid and forceful depression of the brake pedal and then the clutch pedal. One factory cited a continuous price depression of about 10-15% (or a year on 5% decrease) in the past few years. 3.1count noun A sunken place or hollow on a surface. 凹面，低凹处 the original shallow depressions were slowly converted to creeks 原来的浅浅的低凹处慢慢变成了一条条小溪。 Example sentencesExamples It would have blended seamlessly into the wall if it weren't for the circular depressions embedded on its surface. These tiny flowers offer nectar in a shallow median depression on the lip surface. The images relayed from the probe were not much more exciting - some low hills and surface depressions. The presence of shallow depressions in the ground surface allows time for water to percolate into the soil and reduces the volume and speed of flow across the slope. In the idling zone the surface includes a plurality of shallow depressions disposed in an annular zone. Using the back of a spoon, make a shallow depression in the centre, and build up the sides as high as you can. It over looked some sort of depression in the land. Specially engineered depressions in the surface of the inner skin eliminate the need for a separate welded-on reinforcement to increase panel rigidity. Stigmaeopsis mites construct extremely dense oval woven roofs over depressions on the lower surfaces of host leaves. It is usually sunken into a depression so that the rim is level with the ground. The proximal half of the ventral surface forms a long depression. Magnetic vortices moving back and forth inside depressions on a superconducting surface could serve as single-particle bits for a nanoscale computer. Nests are usually shallow depressions in a muddy or sandy bottom in which the eggs are deposited. The stone includes a depression on its concave surface where the practitioner's finger was inserted in order to assist in applying force. A lush habitat appears where surface water accumulates in shallow depressions to form seasonal or fairly permanent ponds. The original site was a depression adjoining the river, which automatically became a swamp frequented by water birds in the wet times. On the western end of the beach is a large, grassy mound with a shallow depression in the top. This is the site of a prehistoric fortification, or broch. Implants are generally not attached to the underlying structures because they are made with depressions on the under surface to fit over the anatomic areas on which they are inserted. Reduced infiltration will cause water ponding for longer periods following rainfall on a field with surface depressions. Multiple depressions dotted the surface of the sandy riverbank, as if it had taken on the look of the surface of a golf ball. Synonyms hollow, indentation, dent, dint, cavity, concavity, dip, pit, hole, pothole, sink, sinkhole, excavation, trough, crater valley, basin, bowl Anatomy fossa, lacuna 4Meteorology A region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system. 〔气象〕低（气）压区（尤指旋风系统） hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions Example sentencesExamples Frontal systems associated with depressions traveling eastwards across the ocean have a significant influence on the weather in southern South Australia during this season. In middle latitudes, belts of west-travelling cyclones or depressions bring rain to areas of hundreds of square kilometres. Cyclonic weather with a depression centred over the UK can cause unsettled conditions in both winter and summer. Rainfall in the savannah region usually arrives between November and April in heavy bursts from monsoonal depressions or tropical cyclones. The most significant features of the wet season are thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and rain depressions. 5Geography Astronomy The angular distance of an object below the horizon or a horizontal plane. 〔天文，地理〕俯角，俯视角 Example sentencesExamples After sunset, as the depression of the sun increases the sky gets darker and darker until no scattered light reaches the observer. Angular depressions at the base of siltstone laminae represent casts of halite that was dissolved by lower-salinity waters that introduced silt. Thus various stages of twilight are defined in terms of the solar depression angle, in degrees. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin depressio(n-), from deprimere 'press down' (see depress). Definition of depression in US English: depression noundəˈprɛʃ(ə)ndəˈpreSH(ə)n 1Feelings of severe despondency and dejection. self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression Example sentencesExamples Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in. Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex. A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry. Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed. Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression. The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression. Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry. People of all ages suffer from depression. Solutions for clinical depression are available. When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing. A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital. The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight. Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts. Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression. Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression. Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources. Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast. Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression. He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away. Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression. We have unprecedented depression and pessimism. We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery. Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair. Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Feelings of depression and despair are common. Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable. I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair. It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death. He had been battling depression for some time. Synonyms melancholy, misery, sadness, unhappiness, sorrow, woe, gloom, gloominess, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, low spirits, heavy-heartedness, moroseness, discouragement, despair, desolation, dolefulness, moodiness, pessimism, hopelessness 1.1Psychiatry A mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep. she was referred by a psychiatrist treating her for depression Example sentencesExamples We have unprecedented depression and pessimism. Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression. Feelings of depression and despair are common. I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair. When I came home from Wales I was struck by horrible feelings of doom, depression, general low spirits and a sense of self-loathing. The mood among local farmers is depression, despair and devastation, and there is no end in sight. It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death. Don't allow yourself the luxury of falling into depression and cynicism and despair. Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable. A small number of people suffer from depression so severe that they may need to be admitted to hospital. We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery. The general national mood can only be described as one of prolonged depression. Anne visited her GP who diagnosed severe depression. Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed. A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry. People of all ages suffer from depression. Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast. Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex. Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in. Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources. Scientists have isolated a gene that appears to lead to a higher risk for depression. Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression. He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away. Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts. Seeing a counselor for depression is not something to be ashamed of any more than seeing a physician for a physical ailment. He had been battling depression for some time. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Clinical depression is generally thought to have a direct link to brain chemistry. Jo took him to a psychologist who prescribed medication for depression. Solutions for clinical depression are available. 2A long and severe recession in an economy or market. 萧条 the depression in the housing market 房产市场的萧条。 Example sentencesExamples They tolerated the gyrations of the business cycle more willingly, including dozens of recessions and several deep economic depressions. They were the first to deal with the issue in a systematic way and to apply their conclusions to the problem of economic depressions. It has lasted for a long time, through depressions, recessions, slumps, civil wars and world wars. They have developed a close relationship between stock market crashes and the economic recessions and depressions that follow them. Just as the mass extinctions were associated with climatic shifts, depressions and recessions often reflect changing economic conditions. Most of the worst recessions and depressions occur the year following an election. This turned what might have been a short recession into the greatest depression in the nation's history. The prolonged depression of the 1880s increased the pressure for change. He also argued that economic depressions stimulated goldmining by lowering costs and releasing labour for prospecting. Yet, the final outcome - an economic depression - would have been exactly the same. Consistent with the above foundation of basic principle, the advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that depressions are not the result of anything inherent in the economic system. The severe and prolonged depression of the 1890's resulted in the decline of the slate industry and only a few men were employed. It also generates the periodic crises characteristic of capitalism - what we call recessions and depressions. For example, he considers economic depressions to be the intensification of the competitive process. After a prolonged agricultural depression lifted in the 1890s, the worst of rural poverty was finally dispelled. These are the people responsible for recessions and depressions. Running big federal deficits in hard economic times is one of those ‘automatic stabilizers’ that help keep recessions from turning into depressions. Only in 1930-31 did it become apparent that the world was in the throes of a prolonged and deep depression. Despite the severity of the depression in the international economy, standards of living did not show correspondingly steep falls. According to him, the original estimate did take into account periodic recessions and depressions in the stock market. Synonyms recession, slump, decline, downturn, slowdown, standstill 2.1the Depression" or "the Great Depression The financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years. （1929年及随后几年的）大萧条 3The action of lowering something or pressing something down. 按下，推压 depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin 推压注射器柱塞注入两个单位的胰岛素。 Example sentencesExamples It is to your advantage to accept any kind of price depression short-term which provides a high operating rate. The depression of prices, and above all profits, was the driving force behind the transformation of production processes in this period. Complete depression of the pedal removes all output torque, whilst gradual release of the pedal leads to progressive torque introduction. The control signal or input for brake release may therefore be generated or relate to accelerator depression, clutch engagement or gear selection. Overall, the price depression has predisposed subsistence farmers to serious problems of survival and financial constraints. But since the mid-1990s, the cotton market has experienced chronic price depression. Emergency braking techniques are taught at an early stage of driver training and require rapid and forceful depression of the brake pedal and then the clutch pedal. Slight depression of the clutch stops the tractor's forward motion, while full depression stops the PTO action. The depression of the clutch pedal lets the force from the pressure plate's spring to release and allow the discs to move and rotate. One factory cited a continuous price depression of about 10-15% (or a year on 5% decrease) in the past few years. 3.1 A sunken place or hollow on a surface. 凹面，低凹处 the original shallow depressions were slowly converted to creeks 原来的浅浅的低凹处慢慢变成了一条条小溪。 Example sentencesExamples Stigmaeopsis mites construct extremely dense oval woven roofs over depressions on the lower surfaces of host leaves. Using the back of a spoon, make a shallow depression in the centre, and build up the sides as high as you can. The stone includes a depression on its concave surface where the practitioner's finger was inserted in order to assist in applying force. It is usually sunken into a depression so that the rim is level with the ground. Reduced infiltration will cause water ponding for longer periods following rainfall on a field with surface depressions. The presence of shallow depressions in the ground surface allows time for water to percolate into the soil and reduces the volume and speed of flow across the slope. These tiny flowers offer nectar in a shallow median depression on the lip surface. In the idling zone the surface includes a plurality of shallow depressions disposed in an annular zone. Implants are generally not attached to the underlying structures because they are made with depressions on the under surface to fit over the anatomic areas on which they are inserted. It would have blended seamlessly into the wall if it weren't for the circular depressions embedded on its surface. It over looked some sort of depression in the land. Nests are usually shallow depressions in a muddy or sandy bottom in which the eggs are deposited. The proximal half of the ventral surface forms a long depression. The images relayed from the probe were not much more exciting - some low hills and surface depressions. On the western end of the beach is a large, grassy mound with a shallow depression in the top. This is the site of a prehistoric fortification, or broch. The original site was a depression adjoining the river, which automatically became a swamp frequented by water birds in the wet times. Magnetic vortices moving back and forth inside depressions on a superconducting surface could serve as single-particle bits for a nanoscale computer. Multiple depressions dotted the surface of the sandy riverbank, as if it had taken on the look of the surface of a golf ball. Specially engineered depressions in the surface of the inner skin eliminate the need for a separate welded-on reinforcement to increase panel rigidity. A lush habitat appears where surface water accumulates in shallow depressions to form seasonal or fairly permanent ponds. Synonyms hollow, indentation, dent, dint, cavity, concavity, dip, pit, hole, pothole, sink, sinkhole, excavation, trough, crater 4Meteorology A region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system. 〔气象〕低（气）压区（尤指旋风系统） hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions Example sentencesExamples The most significant features of the wet season are thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and rain depressions. In middle latitudes, belts of west-travelling cyclones or depressions bring rain to areas of hundreds of square kilometres. Frontal systems associated with depressions traveling eastwards across the ocean have a significant influence on the weather in southern South Australia during this season. Rainfall in the savannah region usually arrives between November and April in heavy bursts from monsoonal depressions or tropical cyclones. Cyclonic weather with a depression centred over the UK can cause unsettled conditions in both winter and summer. 5Astronomy Geography The angular distance of an object below the horizon or a horizontal plane. 〔天文，地理〕俯角，俯视角 Example sentencesExamples Angular depressions at the base of siltstone laminae represent casts of halite that was dissolved by lower-salinity waters that introduced silt. Thus various stages of twilight are defined in terms of the solar depression angle, in degrees. After sunset, as the depression of the sun increases the sky gets darker and darker until no scattered light reaches the observer. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin depressio(n-), from deprimere ‘press down’ (see depress).
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