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Another word for depreciate

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Verb

  1. To become or make less in price or value

    See also:

    money

    increase

  2. To think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant

    Idioms:
    See also:

    show

    attack

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Another word for depreciate

Verb

  1. To decline in value or quantity

    See also:

    decrease

    decay

  2. To lower in reputation

    See also:

    humiliate

    humble

    disgrace

    censure

    Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • Minimize suggests an ascription of the least possible value or importance don't minimize your own efforts
  • Belittle implies depreciation, but stresses a contemptuous attitude in the speaker or writer
  • Decry implies vigorous public denunciation, often from the best of motives to decry corruption in government
  • To disparage is to attempt to lower in esteem, as by insinuation, invidious comparison, faint praise
  • To depreciate is to lessen (something) in value as by implying that it has less worth than is usually attributed to it he depreciated her generosity
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Sentence Examples

  • those to virgins, (2) above); for these enjoin virginity (celibacy), and praise Elijah, David, Samson, and all the prophets, whereas the Ebionite Circuits favour marriage (even in Apostles) and depreciate the prophets between Moses and Christ, "the true Prophet."

  • The government being unable to repay its loans from the banks compelled the latter to suspend the conversion of their notes, which began to depreciate in value.

  • "I have been a witness of him for sixteen years," says Beza, "and I think I am fully entitled to say that in this man there was exhibited to all an example of the life and death of the Christian, such as it will not be easy to depreciate, such as it will be difficult to emulate."

  • It was his whim, as part of his general liberalism, to depreciate the education he received; but it seems to have been a very sound and good education, which formed the basis of his extraordinarily wide, though never extraordinarily accurate, collection of knowledge subsequently, and (a more important thing) disciplined and exercised his literary faculty and judgment.

  • Don't use your equity in a frivolous manner, because you never really know when your home may begin to depreciate and leave you with owing more than the home is worth.

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