adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically depressed (= with not enough business activity, jobs etc )
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Economically depressed areas in the northeast will receive extra EU funding.
weak/ailing/depressed
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The economy is weak and consumer confidence is low.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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I was more depressed than upset.
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It made him even more depressed .
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They're not terribly interested in the depressed South so the depressed South gets more depressed.
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Those questioned were aged from 14 to 83 and were generally more depressed than average.
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At Balmoral her mood grew even more depressed .
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I got more and more depressed .
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Then I felt even more depressed .
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As he told Barbara afterwards, he had never felt more depressed .
really
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I was in a bad way at that time, I felt really depressed , so I went round causing criminal damage.
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But booze made me really depressed .
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I was really depressed at the thought of coming in to the office this morning.
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It has got me really depressed .
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He felt really depressed now, depressed about the old man's worries, depressed about his own.
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That night I was really depressed .
severely
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Boltwood rubbed a little on the forehead of a four year-old who immune system was severely depressed .
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Some one who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy.
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Betty, aged 43, was severely depressed when I first met her.
so
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One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink.
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I was so angry with him, and so depressed about my future, that I could not eat the breakfast.
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I felt so depressed at the end despite a good run.
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Oh man, I must be so depressed .
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When I see other children going to school I feel so depressed and disturbed, my girl is indoors all day.
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So half the time I felt like killing him, and I got agoraphobia, because I was so depressed .
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I've been feeling so depressed and tearful and choked up.
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Callaghan told Joel Barnett that he had never felt so depressed , and the news spread.
very
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Short must be feeling very depressed after this lapse, since he played a model game.
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At other times, he suffered serious infections and pneumonia and became very depressed .
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I came back t vice but I was very depressed just looking at the outside of the house.
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You sound very depressed to me, and it's probably this that's making you feel unable to cope.
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She looked into her future, and grew very depressed .
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Liddie Heath became very depressed after the birth of her first child, a baby boy.
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The women used to get very depressed and there were always debts.
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Women who are very depressed may need more intensive individual support before joining others with bulimia in a group.
■ NOUN
area
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The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas.
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The government, through its regional policy, also provides assistance to companies creating jobs in depressed areas .
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Between 1981 and 1983 the government created twenty-four so-called enterprise zones in economically depressed areas .
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Other depressed areas also lost much, if not all, their natural increase in population.
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By our standards the parts of the Western Isles that we were able to visit are not a particularly depressed area .
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Having made a collection myself in a depressed area , I got £2.30 in total.
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This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas .
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Thus member countries may gradually become depressed areas of the Community.
market
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Recently, car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market .
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The company blamed intense price-cutting in depressed markets which further eroded petrochemical margins.
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The jeans maker's bonds are trading above par, even in a badly depressed market .
state
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But with the present depressed state of the market, any oil may stay underground.
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But with the current depressed state of bloodstock trading there was little prospect of any records being broken.
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Despite the current depressed state of the advertising industry, Ashton receives a regular stream of calls from headhunters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of people eat too much when they're depressed .
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A lot of people get depressed in the winter, when the weather's bad and there's very little sunlight.
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Greta often gets depressed about her weight.
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Most people enrolled in the food stamp program live in depressed urban areas.
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My sister's been really depressed since she lost her job.
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Symptoms of the illness include a depressed appetite.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the first day without her pills, Clare grew increasingly depressed and agitated.
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Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs.
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He used to long for his holidays and grow deeply depressed when they drew to an end.
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He was quite depressed and didn't know which way to turn.
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My already depressed spirits sank a few notches lower.
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The market may be depressed , but aviation auctions are not a thing of the past!
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This paper describes Individual and Group Cognitive Therapy with depressed clients and cites two recent outcome studies.