Depress
Antonyms of DEPRESS
- delight, aid, praise, exalt, boost, reassure, overvalue, elevate, appreciate, console, escalate, upgrade, approve, solace, activate, help, calm, advance, grow, assist, increase, animate, rejoice, inflate, excite, energize, strengthen, make happy, please, compliment, comfort, multiply, inspirit, overrate, enliven, raise, enlarge, cheer, push up, amplify, encourage, overprice, aggrandize, invigorate, augment, soothe, bloat, rise, lighten, order, improve, blow up, admire, swell, balloon, stimulate, maximize, extend, honor, laud, up, expand, hearten, gratify, brighten, compound, mark up, lift, dignify, assure, enhance, promote, add, flatter, gladden, dilate, overestimate, uplift.
Examples of usage:
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But the scenery would depress the most buoyant spirits. "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria" by Winston Spencer Churchill
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The carronades were now fired, and a flight of rockets sent the horsemen galloping out of the way, while the gunners scampered off or threw themselves on the ground; a second flight of rockets and another dose of canister kept them from returning till the brig had neared the cliffs; so close indeed was she that her mainyard almost touched them, while the enemy, who by this time had returned, could not sufficiently depress their guns to send a shot down on her decks, neither did the riflemen approach sufficiently near the edge to fire into her; probably having a wholesome dread of the rockets or bullets which might be sent in return from the daring little vessel. "The Three Lieutenants" by W.H.G. Kingston