depreciate
verbEtymology
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.
- derived from dēpretiātus
- inherited from depreciaten
Definitions
To lessen in price or estimated value
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.
To decline in value over time.
To belittle or disparage.
- They depreciated him because he was the youngest on the team.
The neighborhood
- neighborappreciate
- neighborprecious
- neighborprice
- neighborprize
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at depreciate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at depreciate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at depreciate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA