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Thesaurus entry: depression
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- The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
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depression
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noun
1.
patients suffering from depression
synonyms
: clinical depression, endogenous depression, reactive depression, melancholia.
2.
bad news caused her depression
synonyms
: sadness, unhappiness, despair, gloom, glumness, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, melancholy, discouragement, desolation, dolefulness, moodiness, moroseness, pessimism, hopelessness; low spirits, blues;
inf.
the dumps.
3.
a depression in the landscape
synonyms
: hollow, indentation, dent, cavity, concavity, dip, valley, pit, hole, bowl, sink, sinkhole, excavation.
4.
an economic depression
synonyms
: slump, recession, decline, slowdown, ...
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Thesaurus entry: witness
The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus;
317 words
... ... validate; notarize. phrase: bear witness to his diary bears witness to his lifelong struggle with depression synonyms : attest to, testify to, confirm, evidence, prove, verify, corroborate, substantiate; show, demonstrate ...
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