depress
verb (used with object)
to make sad or gloomy; lower in spirits; deject; dispirit.
had depressed
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past perfectof depress.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But by the time the house was finished 28 months later, the housing crisis had depressed the market considerably.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2016
Dudley acknowledged that recent fierce winter weather in parts of the nation had depressed activity in early 2014, but said those effects will be both hard to gauge and transitory.
From Reuters ● Mar. 6, 2014
Aviva added that those concerns had depressed the share price of Vedanta, which mines predominantly in India, Zambia and Australia.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2012
An unusually mild winter had depressed sales of cold weather items during the holiday season.
From Time ● Mar. 13, 2012
Later, he realized that Odenigbo did not intend to punch him, perhaps did not consider him worthy of a punch, and the thought had depressed him.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
