depreciate

verb
/dɪˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/UK/dəˈpriʃiˌeɪt/US

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.

  1. derived from dēpretiātus
  2. inherited from depreciaten

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. To decline in value over time.

  3. To belittle or disparage.

    • They depreciated him because he was the youngest on the team.

The neighborhood

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.

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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