Depreciate: verb (word coming from the Latin depretiare, from pretium: “price”).
The verb “depreciate” has several meanings:
I) Transitive verb:
1. Decrease the value, the price of.
To depreciate a commodity (debase).
To depreciate by degrading, by deteriorating.
Building depreciated by the proximity of a factory.
Figurative meaning: Defects that depreciate a character, a work (damage, devalue).
To belittle someone's merit (minimize).
2. Expressing a negative judgment on the value of...
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