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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
depreciate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
value
▪ Lybrand nine days after Forbes magazine reported that Hollywood depreciated the value of its video cassettes more slowly than competitors.
▪ The central bank is most concerned to limit inflation because inflation depreciates the value of the assets held by the commercial banks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A new car depreciates more quickly than a second-hand one.
▪ Dana depreciates the value of his relationships with his friends in his poetry.
▪ New cars depreciate quickly in the first two years.
▪ The entire cost of an asset is depreciated over a period of years.
▪ US investors anticipate that the Deutschmark will, in the long term, depreciate relative to the dollar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And you could depreciate one-eighth of your tax basis in your home.
▪ By depreciating against the other currencies as needed, the scavenger currency would insulate them from this local depression.
▪ For other assets there is no provision, statutory or professional, to depreciate them.
▪ His call reflects concern that other currencies could depreciate against the euro, leading to strains among the 15 member states.
▪ It is clear from the data that the dollar began to depreciate steadily after March 1985.
▪ Just how much people will switch out of sterling depends on how much they think the exchange rate will depreciate.
▪ These notes are postmarked from countries where the dollar has just gotten weaker, or depreciated.
▪ Thus, the United States government might attempt to depreciate the dollar when our economy is in recession.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depreciate

Depreciate \De*pre"ci*ate\ (d[-e]*pr[=e]"sh[i^]*[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depreciated (d[-e]*pr[=e]"sh[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Depreciating (d[-e]*pr[=e]"sh[i^]*[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. depretiatus, depreciatus, p. p. of depretiare, -ciare, to depreciate; de- + pretiare to prize, fr. pretium price. See Price.] To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
--Addison.

Which . . . some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.
--Cudworth.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
--Burke.

Syn: To decry; disparage; traduce; lower; detract; underrate. See Decry.

Depreciate

Depreciate \De*pre"ci*ate\, v. i. To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
depreciate

mid-15c., from Latin depretiatus, past participle of depretiare "to lower the price of, undervalue," from de- "down" (see de-) + pretium "price" (see price (n.)). Related: Depreciated; depreciating; depreciatory.

Wiktionary
depreciate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. 2 (context intransitive English) To decline in value over time. 3 (context transitive English) To belittle.

WordNet
depreciate
  1. v. belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" [syn: deprecate]

  2. lower the value of something; "The Fed depreciated the dollar once again" [ant: appreciate]

  3. lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again" [syn: undervalue, devaluate, devalue] [ant: appreciate]

Usage examples of "depreciate".

Instead of depreciating the merits of Julian, they acknowledged, and even exaggerated, his popular fame, superior talents, and important services.

The laws against coiners and clippers are only severe with regard to these particular coins, as the Government has special reasons for not wishing them to be depreciated.

Of course, it was really the strangers who were helping us, because not only were the Blackshirts afraid of harming any part of this precious new consignment of healthy blood, but our rarity value had depreciated considerably.

Whatever the ultimate effects of an inflated and consequently depreciated currency might be, the debtor class, to which a large portion of the Western farmers belonged, would obviously benefit immediately by the injection of large quantities of money into the circulating medium.

Dorothy Franz, convicted of having sold two heads of salad at twenty sous, and of thus having depreciated the value of assignats, is sentenced to a fine of three thousand livres, imprisonment for six weeks and exposure in the pillory for two hours.

Or whether the rough dispelling of any bright illusion, however imaginative, depreciates the real and unexaggerated brightness which appertains to its basis, one cannot say.

But undoubtedly praise and admiration are highly efficient: a pretty girl blushes when a man gazes intently at her, though she may know perfectly well that he is not depreciating her.

Whenever we believe that others are depreciating or even considering our personal appearance, our attention is vividly directed to the outer and visible parts of our bodies.

Now, whenever we know, or suppose, that others are depreciating our personal appearance, our attention is strongly drawn towards ourselves, more especially to our faces.