Depress vs Discourage - What's the difference?
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To press down.
To make depressed, sad or bored.
To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
(math) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
* Bible, Col. iii. 21
To persuade somebody not to do something.
* Abraham Lincoln
Lack of courage
Depress is a related term of discourage.
As verbs the difference between depress and discourage
is that depress is to press down while discourage is to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.As a noun discourage is
lack of courage.depress
English
Verb
(es)- Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
- Winter depresses me.
- Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
Synonyms
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*discourage
English
Verb
(discourag)- Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged .
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.