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Answer for the clue "Reduces in worth ", 7 letters:
devalue

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Word definitions for devalue in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To lower or remove the value of something. 2 To lose value; to depreciate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1918, a back-formation from devaluation . Related: Devalued ; devaluing .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. remove the value from; deprive of its value [syn: devaluate ] lower the value or quality of; "The tear devalues the painting" lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again" [syn: depreciate , undervalue , devaluate ] [ant: appreciate ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES devalue the currency (= reduce the value of a country’s money in relation to other currencies ) ▪ The Finance Minister was forced to devalue the currency. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN currency ▪ The dramatic move ...

Usage examples of devalue.

However, rather than investigating the anachronistic statements in the Inventory Stela, Egyptologists chose to devalue them.

Iraq officially uncoupled the dinar from the pound sterling as a gesture of independence in 1959, but the dinar remained at parity with the pound until the British unit of currency was again devalued in 1967.

Meanwhile, the lox was being steadily devalued, there was open hostility between the Jovians and Pax vessels which arrived at Callisto Station, and the aresians were complaining of being treated like poor cousins.

Putting 900 pennyweight of lyghnium on the market would devalue the price another couple of kilotramos at least.

Some modern devices intruded, Minogue noted, but the fax and photocopier seemed devalued by being half-hidden under papers.

By dismissing it, perhaps he hoped it would be devalued in the eyes of the others as well.

She looked to be a magical feminine treasure whose own light devalued that of the lamp.

The narcissist instantly idealises or devalues, depending on his appraisal of the potential one has as a Narcissistic Supply Source.

But then, when it comes to the spiritual orientation that will supplant and heal this agency-laden "patriarchal" worldview, she ends up almost incomprehensibly championing a broad form of vipassana/Theravadin Buddhism, the East's archetypal and merely Ascending path, which is radically dualistic and hyper-hyperagentic, a pure Goddess-denying, Descent-denying, Goodness-denying, Plenitude-denying path, a path that historically has denied and devalued the body, the earth (samsara), sex (and the ultimate sin-temptation, woman).

The Ferengi are their primary trading partners, and the Cardassians cannot afford to devalue their credit by defaulting on a debt.

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

I don't mean devaluing the life of others (though it can do that too), but devaluing one's own life.

The fact that I am not covering the material base in this volume certainly does not mean I am neglecting it or devaluing it.

And the more the Ego succeeded in its goal of devaluing the Eco, then the more abstract, arid, dry, and desiccated it became.

This puts Argentina’s exporters, with their products priced via the “peg” in US dollars, into a pathetic, losing competition against Brazilian goods priced in a devaluing currency.