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Defrosting
- verb - make or become free of frost or ice; "Defrost the car window"
Degressive
- adjective - (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount
- going down by steps
Depressant
- adjective - a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
- capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent
Depressing
- verb - cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
- causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
- lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
- lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
- press down; "Depress the space key"
Depression
- noun - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- a sunken or depressed geological formation
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
- angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
Depressive
- noun - someone suffering psychological depression
Depressors
- noun - a device used by physician to press a part down or aside
- any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
- any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
Digressing
- verb - lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
- wander from a direct or straight course
Digression
- noun - a message that departs from the main subject
- a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
- wandering from the main path of a journey
Digressive
- adjective - (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
- of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"