憂うつを取り除く soak away the blues

憂うつを晴らす〔人の〕 charm someone out of his depression

憂うつ感 depressed mood《医》〔うつ病の症状〕

憂うつ気分 depressive mood

憂うつ気味 trait of melancholy

憂うつ質 melancholic temperament

憂うつ症 black dog●severe depression

憂うつ症患者 depressive patient

憂うつ病 wobble

憂うべき傾向 alarming tendency

憂き身をやつす devote oneself●give oneself over

憂き身をやつす〔~に〕 be absorbed in

憂き目 miserable fate●unhappiness

憂き目に遭う〔~の〕 get stuck with

憂き目を見る come to harm●have a hard [bad] time of it●suffer misery●undergo [go through, live through] hardship

憂さを晴らす banish depression●dispel one's gloom●dissipate melancholy●drive off [away] one's gloom●get it out of one's system●let [blow, work] off steam●refresh oneself

憂さ晴らしに (in order) to forget it all●as a diversion●for amusement●to distract one from one's grief●to take one's mind off things