- present tense form of depress (3rd person singular).
depresses
Example Sentences
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The next day’s Times heralded the event as the “birth of international television,” marveling that American viewers “probably saw more than the peers and peeresses in their seats in the transept.”
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022
Women's magazines became obsessed with the ceremonial attire of princesses and peeresses; class, debutantes and deference gained a new lease of life.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010
She has fought for the right of peeresses to sit in the House of Lords.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ornate galleries of the Lords Chamber, usually deserted while bores speak to empty seats, were tight-packed with peeresses, dazzling in their fashionable plumage.
From Time Magazine Archive
A queen dowager, when married again to a subject, doth not lose her regal dignity, as peeresses dowager do their peerage when they marry commoners.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir
