Depress vs Downbear - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between depress and downbear

is that depress is to press down while downbear is to bear, bring or carry down.

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To press down.

Depress the upper lever to start the machine.

To make depressed, sad or bored.

Winter depresses me.

To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.

Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.

To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).

(math) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

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To bear, bring or carry down.

*1882 , Hermes (Trismegistus.), John David Chambers (1805-1893), The theological and philosophical works of Hermes Trismegistus :

Immediately from the downborne elements sprung forth The Word of The God to the pure creation of all Nature, [...]

To bear or press down (on); press upon; depress; subdue.

*1997 , Bob Flaws, Curing Insomnia Naturally with Chinese Medicine :

Further, Caulis Bambusae downbears' the stomach, thus ' downbearing upwardly counterflowing depressive heat.

*2000 , Philippe Sionneau, Lü Gang, The Treatment of Disease in Tmc: General Symptoms :

Together, these points supplement the qi to help upbear the clear and downbear the turbid when needled with supplementing method.

*2007 , Bruce H. Robinson, Biomedicine :

When one relaxes physically as well as mentally, whatever qi should be upborne is upborne and whatever qi should be downborne' is ' downborne .

To lessen; reduce.

*1998 , Bob Flaws, Sticking to the Point :

The stomach channel's uniting point, Zu San Li, is chosen in order to drain the stomach and downbear counterflow.