depressant
Medicine/Medical. having the quality of depressing or lowering the vital activities; sedative.
causing a lowering in spirits; dejecting.
causing a drop in value; economically depressing.
Medicine/Medical. a sedative.: Compare stimulant (def. 1).
Chemistry. any agent capable of diminishing a specific property of a substance.
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How to use depressant in a sentence
Similar to previous non-hallucinogenic cousins, their molecules need a high dose to see anti-depressant effects.
Psychedelics Without the Trip Could Be ‘Healing Magic’ for Mental Health | Shelly Fan | February 1, 2022 | Singularity HubThere are certain points during a woman’s menstrual cycle where anti-depressants may be too low at their normal dose, and that at another point, they might be too high.
Check the Data: It’s a Man’s World (The Freakonomics Radio Book Club Ep. 10) | Maria Konnikova | September 25, 2021 | FreakonomicsStreet-drug users often combine fentanyl with methamphetamine, Zibbell said, believing that the stimulant and the depressant balance each other.
At the heart of Derek Chauvin’s trial is this question: What killed George Floyd? | Lenny Bernstein, Holly Bailey | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostA commercial for an anti-depressant to take when you feel “everything is meaningless” and works to “anchor you back to reality” corresponds to an episode where Wanda begins to realize the limit of her delusion.
Another side is when you’re on anti-depressants, the hookup physiology may not work.
In fact, the estrogen that they employed did worse than castrate the subject—it could act as a cerebral depressant.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero | Clive Irving | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome presenters claim that qat is like heroin, a depressant.
Chinese Getting Hooked on the Middle East's Favorite Drug | Brendon Hong | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKotak has only just begun weaning herself off a cocktail of anti-psychotic, anti-depressant, and anti-anxiety medication.
This is something that's the best anti-depressant, anti-anxiety drug I have ever been on.
Hormone Therapy Is More Than Just a Physical Process | Brandy Zadrozny | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe disease is very severe, painful, and depressant, but the mortality is quite low except in complication with other maladies.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIn large doses chloral hydrate is a depressant to the circulation and the respiration, and also lowers the temperature.
But the weakening and deteriorating effect of this pernicious narcotic, water-absorbing, depressant drug poison is unmistakable.
Huts in Hell | Daniel A. PolingBut, unfortunately, acetanilid is also the one with the most depressant action on the heart.
As a stimulant Capsicum has the power of neutralizing depressant remedies like Lobelia and Tobacco.
British Dictionary definitions for depressant
/ (dɪˈprɛsənt) /
med able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
causing gloom or dejection; depressing
a depressant drug
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