masentaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• depress verb To make someone feel sad, low, or hopeless.
• desolate adj Empty and bleak, with no people or life around; also, extremely sad and without hope.
• dispirit verb To reduce someone's morale; to make them despondent or downhearted.
• oppress verb To control or treat a group of people unfairly and cruelly, often by force.

Senses

masentaa is used for these senses in English:

• depress To make depressed, sad or bored.
• desolate To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
• dispirit (transitive) To lower the morale of; to make despondent; to dishearten.
• oppress (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.

depress — full definition

1. verb To make someone feel sad, low, or hopeless.
2. verb To push something down, or to reduce activity or value (especially in an economy).

desolate — full definition

1. adj Empty and bleak, with no people or life around; also, extremely sad and without hope.
2. verb To make a place empty of people or life; to devastate.

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