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depressionsnounpl. of depression a period of decreased economic activityduring the 1930s the U.S. suffered a great depression recessions, slumps busts, crashes, panicsstagnationsdownbeats, downdrafts, downswings, downtrends, downturns, slowdowns booms developments, growthsadvancements, progressesrallies, recoveries a sunken area forming a separate spacethe water generally collects in the patchwork of depressions in the city plaza cavities, concavities, dents, dints, holes, hollows, indentations, indentures, pits, recesses burrows, caverns, caves, ditches, excavations, furrows, grooves, gutters, trenches, troughsbasins, bowls, valleysalcoves, clefts, niches, nooks, openings, recesses, socketsalveoli, dimples, gouges, impressions, imprints, notches, pocketsboreholes, chuckholes, craters, postholes, potholes, sinkholes, wallows, water holes, wellsabysses, chasms, gulfs, vacuities, vacuums(or vacua), voids bulges, cambers, convexities, juts, projections, protrusions, protuberances hills, mounds, risesbumps, bunches, humps, lumps, pimples, swellings, swells, tumors the amount by which something is lesseneda depression in the number of new homes being built abatements, declines, decreases, decrements, dents, depletions, diminishments, diminutions, drop-offs, drops, falloffs, falls, losses, reductions, shrinkages, step-downs deductions, subtractionsdownturns, slips, slumpscurtailments, cutbacks, cuts, retrenchments, shortenings boosts, enlargements, gains, increases, increments, raises, rises, step-ups, upticks accretions, accruals, accumulations, additions, supplementscontinuations, extensionsupswings, uptrends, upturns |