English words for 'Countering depression.'
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noun
- a state of depression
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- plural of blue
- (music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
- (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
- (music) A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- (drugs, slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
- A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
verb
noun
- a state of depression
- Chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
- plural of megrim
- (veterinary medicine) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers.
adj
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Unhappy; despondent.
- (mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
- lower than previously
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
verb
verb
noun
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
verb
- make a depression into
- cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- notch the edge of or make jagged
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- set in from the margin
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (military, India, Singapore, dated elsewhere) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
noun
- an order for goods to be exported or imported
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
noun
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
noun
- (countable) Mental depression.
- (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
- (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
- (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
- (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
- a state of nervous depression
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
verb
- (intransitive) To perform funk music.
- (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word).
- (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
- (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- draw back, as with fear or pain
noun
- depression resulting from an undermining of your morale
- a state of disorder and confusion
- destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
- The act of corrupting or subverting morale, discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in morale.
- The act degrading the moral value of something.
noun
adj
- recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
- elastic; rebounds readily
- (psychology, neuroscience) Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.
- (materials science) Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.
- Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions. (of systems, organisms or people)
- Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)
noun
- a state of depression
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- plural of blue
- (music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
- (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
- (music) A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- (drugs, slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
- A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
verb
noun
- a state of depression
- Chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
- plural of megrim
- (veterinary medicine) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers.
noun
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
noun
- (countable) Mental depression.
- (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
- (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
- (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
- (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
- a state of nervous depression
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
verb
- (intransitive) To perform funk music.
- (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word).
- (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
- (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- draw back, as with fear or pain
noun
- depression resulting from an undermining of your morale
- a state of disorder and confusion
- destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
- The act of corrupting or subverting morale, discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in morale.
- The act degrading the moral value of something.
noun
verb
noun
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
verb
- make a depression into
- cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- notch the edge of or make jagged
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- set in from the margin
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (military, India, Singapore, dated elsewhere) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
noun
- an order for goods to be exported or imported
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
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adj
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Unhappy; despondent.
- (mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
- lower than previously
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
verb
adj
- recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
- elastic; rebounds readily
- (psychology, neuroscience) Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.
- (materials science) Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.
- Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions. (of systems, organisms or people)
- Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)