The Clue
Laundry chore in Brooklyn (10 letter answer)
The Answer
DEPRESSING
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Notes
The answer DEPRESSING is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
DEPRESS as a verb:
1. (depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise) = lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
2. lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
3. (lower, depress) = cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
4. (press down, depress) = press down; "Depress the space key"
5. lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
DEPRESSING as an adjective:
1. (blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary) = causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
2. (depressing, depressive, gloomy, saddening) = causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"