depreciate
depreciate Lexical Profile
depreciate Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To diminish or decrease in value or price over time.
"New automobiles begin to depreciate the moment they are driven off the dealership lot."
To reduce the recorded value of an asset over a specified period for accounting or tax purposes, or to lower the purchasing power of a currency.
"The accounting department decided to depreciate the new manufacturing equipment over a ten-year period."
To belittle, disparage, or represent as being of little worth or importance.
"Critics should not depreciate the significance of her early research in laying the foundation for modern genetics."
Word Nuance & Usage
Do not confuse 'depreciate' with 'deprecate'. While 'depreciate' primarily refers to a decrease in monetary or material value (and secondarily to belittling), 'deprecate' means to express strong disapproval of something or, in computing, to mark a feature as obsolete.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-17th century from Late Latin depreciatus, past participle of depreciare ('to undervalue, lower in price'), formed from de- ('down') and pretium ('price, value').