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Depression

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a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

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pushing down

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sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

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a sunken or depressed geological formation

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angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

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a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

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a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

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a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

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an air mass of lower pressure

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clinical depressiondepressive disordereconomic crisisimpressionlownatural depressionslump
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