Roget's Thesaurus

#308. Depression

Nouns

lowering etc. v.; depression; dip etc. (concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion; reduction. overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation. bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.

Verbs

depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate. overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears. sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline etc. (be horizontal) 213.

Adjectives

depressed etc. v.; at a low ebb; prostrate etc. (horizontal) 213; detrusive.

Phrases

facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lat.] [Lucan].