Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Depressed (a.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.
(2) - Depressed (a.) Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.
(3) - Depressed (a.) Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
(4) - Depressed (a.) Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
(5) - Depressed (imp. & p. p.) of Depress

(1) - Depression (n.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
(2) - Depression (n.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
(3) - Depression (n.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
(4) - Depression (n.) Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
(5) - Depression (n.) Dejection; despondency; lowness.
(6) - Depression (n.) Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
(7) - Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
(8) - Depression (n.) The state of being depressed; a sinking.
(9) - Depression (n.) The act of depressing.

(1) - Depressive (a.) Able or tending to depress or cast down.

(1) - Depressomotor (n.) Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.
(2) - Depressomotor (a.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.