Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving to depress: specifically applied to certain muscles which pull downward, as the rectus inferior oculi, which draws down the eyeball.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Serving to depress.

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  • adjective Serving to depress.

Etymologies

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Latin deprimens, present participle of deprimere. See depress.

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