Archaic past tense of depress; pressed down or oppressed (archaic).
From depress + '-ed' (past tense suffix), but 'deprest' is an archaic or dialectal form. Most modern English would use 'depressed' instead.
Deprest appears in medieval and early modern English texts—it's like a fossil word showing how English speakers centuries ago described feeling pressed down by their circumstances.
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