depressant
Example Sentences
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Economists have long pointed to the country’s years-long property slump as a major depressant of consumer sentiment, as real-estate makes up a significant portion of household balance sheets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
I have some doubts about that being the primary depressant, considering that the second, third and fourth most morose metros on the list are all in the Sun Belt: Riverside-San Bernardino, Phoenix and Miami.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
He said he had been given a diagnosis as “manic depressant and bipolar,” which caused him to lie about the brain cancer.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
Dramatic reconstruction – also used in Antonia Bird's Hamburg Cell, a film about the hijackers themselves – served a purpose, but it could also be a gruelling depressant.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2010
It lowers blood-pressure by paralyzing the vaso-motor centers and by a direct depressant action upon the heart muscle.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various
