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depreciate

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English depreciaten, borrowed from Late Latin dēpretiātus / dēpreciātus, perfect passive participle of dēpretiō / dēpreciō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + pretium (price) + .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (UK) /dɪˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/, (US) /dəˈpriʃiˌeɪt/

Verb

depreciate (third-person singular simple present depreciates, present participle depreciating, simple past and past participle depreciated)

  1. (transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
    Synonym: devalue
    Antonym: appreciate
    • 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.
  2. (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
    Synonym: devalue
    Antonym: appreciate
  3. (transitive) To belittle or disparage.
    Antonyms: aggrandize, (slang) big up
    They depreciated him because he was the youngest on the team.

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Verb

depreciate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of depreciar combined with te

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