Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-PRESS'ED
DE-PRESS'ED, pp.
- Pressed or forced down; lowered; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled; sunk; rendered languid.
- In botany, a depressed leaf is hollow in the middle, or having the disk more depressed than the sides; used of succulent leaves, and opposed to convex. – Martyn.
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