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.

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