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  • 61depress — v. a. 1. Lower, detrude, drop, sink, bow, reduce, press down, let down, let fall, cast down, bring down. 2. Degrade, humble, disgrace, humiliate, debase, abase, abash, bring low, take down. 3. Discourage, dishearten, dispirit, deject, damp,… …

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  • 62mismanage — v. a. Misconduct, manage ill, make a mess of, make a botch of, make sad work of …

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  • 63botch — v 1. bungle, Inf. muff, Inf. flub; spoil, Inf. foul up, Sl. bitch, Sl. blow; hash, muddle, mangle, butcher, Dial. butch, Sl. screw up, Sl. mess up, Sl. louse up, Inf. bollix; gum up the works, make a hash of, make a mess of, make sad work of, U.S …

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  • 64mismanage — v maladminister, misgovern, misdirect, misrule, misconduct, mishandle; misspend, squander, waste, dissipate; be incompetent, be inefficient; bungle, botch, Inf. muff, Inf. flub, spoil, Inf. foul up, Sl. blow; hash, muddle, mangle, Sl. screw up,… …

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  • 65cry — [n1] weeping and making sad sounds bawl, bawling, bewailing, blubber, blubbering, howl, howling, keening, lament, lamentation, mourning, shedding tears, snivel, snivelling, sob, sobbing, sorrowing, tears, the blues*, wailing, weep, whimpering,… …

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  • 66depress — depressible, adj. depressibility, n. /di pres /, v.t. 1. to make sad or gloomy; lower in spirits; deject; dispirit. 2. to lower in force, vigor, activity, etc.; weaken; make dull. 3. to lower in amount or value. 4. to put into a lower position:… …

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  • 67depress — I verb abase, bring down, bring low, cause to sink, cheapen, dampen, darken, decline, decrease, deflate, deject, depreciate, deteriorate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, discourage, dispirit, drop, ebb, flatten, indent, lessen, lower, make… …

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  • 68dispirit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. discourage, dishearten. See dejection. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To make less hopeful or enthusiastic: discourage, dishearten. See HELP. 2. To make sad or gloomy: deject, depress, oppress,… …

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  • 69rue — {{11}}rue (n.1) perennial evergreen shrub, late 14c., from O.Fr. rue, earlier rude, from L. ruta rue, probably from Gk. rhyte, of uncertain etymology, originally a Peloponnesian word. The bitter taste of its leaves led to many punning allusions… …

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  • 70bring under — depress, make sad, make unhappy …

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