depress
v.v. to make something feel sad or to cause a country's economy to grow very slowly. In math, it means to lower the value of a number or a graph.
v. to cause a state of low spirits or to cause a decline in economic activity; in a mathematical context, to reduce the value of a variable or to lower the position of a graph.
The news of the job loss began to depress the local economy.
The central bank raised interest rates to prevent the housing market from further depressing the national economy.
In linear algebra, the matrix is designed to depress the eigenvalues of the system, effectively stabilizing the output over time.
From Middle English depressen, from Old French depresser, from Latin dēpressus, perfect participle of dēprimō (“to press down, to weigh down”), from dē- (“off, away, down, out”) + premō (“to press”).