Depreciate, v. a.
- 1. Underrate, undervalue, lessen the price of, diminish the value of.
- 2. Disparage, decry, traduce, malign, belittle, degrade, censure, find fault with.
Depreciate, v. n. Fall in price, fall in value, become of less worth, decline, fall off, fall, lose value.
Depreciation, n.
- 1. Fall in price, diminution of value, decline in value, fall, decline.
- 2. Detraction, disparagement, derogation, belittling, traducing, maligning, censure.
Depreciative, a. Derogatory, depreciatory, disparaging.
Depredation, n. Spoliation, rapine, robbery, theft, pillage, plunder, pilfering.
Depredator, n. Plunderer, robber, thief, spoiler, brigand, freebooter, pirate, corsair, buccaneer, marauder.
Depress, v. a.
- 1. Lower, detrude, drop, sink, bow, reduce, press down, let down, let fall, cast down, bring down.
- 2. Degrade, humble, disgrace, humiliate, debase, abase, abash, bring low, take down.
- 3. Discourage, dishearten, dispirit, deject, damp, dampen, chill, sadden, make sad, make despondent.
- 4. Make dull (as trade), lower.
Depression, n.
- 1. Abasement, degradation, deterioration, debasement, perversion, vitiation, depravation.
- 2. Hollow, hollowness, cavity, concavity, indentation, dent, dint, dimple, excavation, pit.
- 3. Dejection, dejectedness, sadness, despondency, melancholy, dolefulness, dole, gloom, gloominess,
dumps, blues, lowness of spirits, low spirits, depression of spirits, vapors.
- 4. Lowness, dulness, inactivity, stagnation.
- 5. (Surg.) Couching.