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| NOUN: | 1. A period of decreased business activity and high unemployment: recession, slump. See RICH. 2. An area sunk below its surroundings: basin, concavity, dip, hollow, pit1, sag, sink, sinkhole. See CONVEX. 3. A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness. See FEELINGS, HAPPY.
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