depressorn.
/dɪˈprɛsə/ 1. One who or that which depresses (in various senses: see the verb).
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > one who or that which humiliates
stoop-gallant1551
depressor1611
humbler1611
deprimenta1624
putter-down1701
mortifier1801
squabasher1827
humiliator1850
snubber1861
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances
cloudc1430
palla1450
melancholya1475
downdraughta1681
Job's comforter1738
damper1748
killjoy1776
wet blanket1810
down-drag1814
chill1821
dismals1829
shadow1855
down1856
a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857
wet blanket1857
depressor1868
dampener1887
sorry-go-round1898
wet smack1927
bringdown1935
droopy drawers1939
big chill1943
party pooper1947
misery1951
party poop1951
grinch1966
downer1969
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Abbaisseur, an abaser..depresser, humbler.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 112 That..would haue raised it selfe against all depressors and detractors.
a1639 Wotton in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 219 Those that rayse stand ever in..hazard to be thought..the fittest depressours.
1868 A. Bain The causes of pain and the depressors of vitality.
2. Anatomy and Physiology.
a. A muscle which depresses or pulls down the part to which it is attached; also attributive as depressor muscle.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun]
sphincter1578
raiser1588
in-muscle?1609
oblique1612
abducens1615
abductor1615
adductor1615
antagonist1615
bender1615
depressor1615
extender1615
flexor1615
levator1615
quadratus1615
rectus1615
retractor1615
sphincter-muscle1615
accelerator1638
bicepsa1641
elevator1646
adducent1649
lifter1649
rotator1657
flector1666
contractor1682
dilater1683
orbicularis palpebrarum1694
transverse muscle1696
tensor muscle1704
biventer1706
extensor1713
attollent1728
constrictor1741
dilator1741
risibles1785
orbicularis oculi1797
obliquus1799
erector1828
extensor-muscle1830
compressor1836
trans-muscle1836
antagonizer1844
motor1846
evertor1848
inflector1851
protractor1853
prime mover1860
orbicular1872
transversalis1872
invertor1875
skeletal muscle1877
dilatator1878
occlusor muscle1878
sphincter1879
pilomotor1892
agonist1896
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 741 Euery leuator or lifting muscle hath a depressor or sinking muscle.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 148 The Depressors of the lower Jaw.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) ix. 234 The lower [eye-] lid has no special depressor.
b. depressor nerve n. a branch of the vagus, the stimulation of which lowers the pressure of the blood.
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1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 132 The vagi and depressor nerves did not appear to be affected.
3. Surgery. An instrument for pressing down some part or organ.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Depressor (Surgery), an instrument like a curved spatula, used for reducing or pushing into place an obtruding part. Such are used in operations on the skull..and in couching a cataract.
1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Tongue depressor, a flattened metallic plate for depressing the tongue, in order to see the throat.
4. A device in the return electrical circuit for keeping the potential in that circuit the same as that of the earth.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) A depressor or crusher is essentially of the same nature as a booster, but is applied to the regulation of the return circuit instead of the insulated circuit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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