Usually means: Lowers or reduces mood, activity level.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. depresses: Merriam-Webster
  2. depresses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. depresses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Depresses, depresses: Wordnik
  5. depresses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. depresses: Wiktionary
  7. depresses: Dictionary.com
  8. depresses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. depresses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depresses: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. depresses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. depresses: Medical dictionary

(Note: See depress as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (depress)

verb:  To press down.
verb:  To make depressed, sad or bored.
verb:  (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
verb:  To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
verb:  (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
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