depreciate

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/dɪˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/(UK)
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/dɪˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/(UK) · /dəˈpriʃiˌeɪt/(US)

Definition of depreciate

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
    “[…] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.”
    “To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
    “[…] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.”
    “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.
  3. (transitive)To belittle or disparage.
    “They depreciated him because he was the youngest on the team.”

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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”) + -ō.

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