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antidepressant

 noun
     
Related topics: Drugs, Medicines, Illness and Disability, Psychology, Psychiatry
an‧ti‧de‧pres‧sant [uncountable and countable]
MD a drug used to treat depression (=a mental illness that makes people very unhappy)
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