Synonyms of the word

depress

• v. To press down.
• v. To make depressed, sad or bored.
• v. To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
• v. To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
• v. (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

deject

• v. (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cast down.

demoralise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

• v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

discourage

• v. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
• v. To persuade somebody not to do something.
• n. (rare) Lack of courage.

dismay

• n. A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling…
• n. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
• v. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and…
• v. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
• v. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

dispirit

• v. (transitive) To lower the morale of; to make despondent; to dishearten.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

lower

• adj. comparative form of low: more low.
• adj. bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
• adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older.
• adv. comparative form of low: more low.
• v. (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down.
• v. (transitive) to pull down.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the height of.
• v. (transitive) To depress as to direction.
• v. (transitive) To make less elevated.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of.
• v. (transitive) To bring down; to humble.
• v. (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
• v. (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease.
• v. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
• v. Alternative spelling of lour.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.