depreciate
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin depretiare, depretiatus, from de- + pretium (“price”). More at appreciate and appretio.
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depreciate (third-person singular simple present depreciates, present participle depreciating, simple past and past participle depreciated)
- (transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
- […] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.
- 1 December, 1783, Edmund Burke, speech on Fox's East India Bill:
- To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
- (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
- (transitive) To belittle or disparage.
Usage notes edit
- Do not confuse with deprecate (“to disapprove of”). The meaning of deprecate has lately been encroaching on depreciate in the sense 'to belittle'.
Synonyms edit
- (reduce in value over time):
- (belittle): do down; run down
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of “reduce in value over time”): appreciate
- (antonym(s) of “belittle”): aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)
Translations edit
(tr.) to lessen in price or value
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(intr.) to decline in value over time
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to belittle — see belittle
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depreciate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of depreciar combined with te