depress

That will depress spending - and also have wider ramifications, as environmental permitting, patent approvals, payments to contractors and other kinds of government activity tied to business comes to a halt.

He avoided visiting his property before framing began, too depressed by the empty space where home had been since 2006.

His numbers have stayed there, seemingly depressed from voters who disapprove of his National Guard stunts and immigration crackdown; they have told pollsters the president went “too far.”

“Everybody is chronically depressed, this feeling of having absolutely no say so with what’s going on in your life.”

“Is it fun being depressed? You cannot succumb!”