depreciate
verb
[ dɪˈpriːʃɪeɪt ]
• diminish in value over a period of time.
• "the latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year"
Similar:
decrease in value,
lose value,
decline in price,
drop in price,
fall in price,
cheapen,
devalue,
• disparage or belittle (something).
• "she was already depreciating her own aesthetic taste"
Similar:
belittle,
disparage,
denigrate,
decry,
deprecate,
make light of,
treat lightly,
discredit,
underrate,
undervalue,
underestimate,
deflate,
detract from,
diminish,
minimize,
trivialize,
run down,
traduce,
defame,
disdain,
ridicule,
deride,
sneer at,
scoff at,
mock,
scorn,
pour scorn on,
knock,
slam,
pan,
bad-mouth,
sell short,
put down,
pooh-pooh,
look down one's nose at,
do down,
do a hatchet job on,
take to pieces,
pull apart,
pick holes in,
drag through the mud,
have a go at,
hit out at,
rubbish,
slate,
slag off,
cry down,
hold cheap,
derogate,
misprize,
minify,
Origin:
late Middle English (in depreciate (sense 2)): from late Latin depreciat- ‘lowered in price, undervalued’, from the verb depreciare, from Latin de- ‘down’ + pretium ‘price’.
