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Depreciating   /dɪprˈiʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Depreciating

adjective
1.
Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value.  Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory.  "Depreciatory effects on prices"


Depreciate

verb
(past & past part. depreciated; pres. part. depreciating)
1.
Belittle.  Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend.
2.
Lower the value of something.
3.
Lose in value.  Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue.





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"Depreciating" Quotes from Famous Books



... the London Stock Exchange in depreciating everything Persian, for the sake of reprisal, is also injurious to the Bank, and more so to the prestige of this country, though we do not seem to see that our attitude has done much more harm to ourselves than ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... alone appeared dissatisfied at this interruption, and now approached the stranger; "I warn you, Senorias! I recognise in this caballero"—he spoke the word in an ironical and depreciating tone—"the same gentilhombre whom the alguazils were so lately seeking. Beware! his presence may get us ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... as decrying or depreciating dress. It is a duty as well as a delight. Mrs. Madison is reported to have said that she would never forgive a young lady who did not dress to please, or one who seemed pleased with her dress. And not only young ladies, but old ladies, and old gentlemen, and everybody, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... a lot of money, he used to complain, with investments depreciating like that and the proof business so short-lived, when the settlers filled a section and all proved up at once. And he had to run a paper a year before it became a ...
— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl
... and five ounces!" in a heavy tone, and by depreciating the cost, "Only a dollar and forty-three cents," spoken lightly, he implied that the value of the steak far outweighed the price. Thus judgment of the prospect's intellect ...
— Certain Success • Norval A. Hawkins


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