verb
definition
To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
definition
To decline in value over time.
definition
To belittle or disparage.
adjective
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That is declining in value.
definition
That degrades the value of something; deprecating.
Examples of depreciating in a Sentence
Instead, you are paying the vehicle's depreciating costs.
The answer is one with a low depreciating value.
Pliny disliked doctors, and lost no opportunity of depreciating regular medicine; nevertheless he has left many quotations from, and many details about, medical authors which are of the highest value.
At Athens a low variety of the unit was adopted for the coinage, true to the object of Solon in depreciating debts; and the first coinage is of only 65.2, or scarcely within the range of the trade weights (28); this seems to have been felt, as, contrary to all other states, Athens slowly increased its coin weight up to 66.6, or but little under the trade average.
Aneau pointed out the obvious inconsistency of inculcating imitation of the ancients and depreciating native poets in a work professing to be a defence of the French language.
The tubers frequently show scurfy or scab-like spots upon their surface, thus greatly depreciating their value for market purposes.
It allows America to fund its wars and consumption with a depreciating currency.
When you lease a vehicle, you are only paying the depreciating value of the car for the time you have it.
This idea has been shaken by real estate bubbles bursting all over the country, and many investors have found their properties depreciating and their portfolio damaged.
Liven up the Miami party scene or even the deck of your uncle's depreciating yacht with the carnal excitement of a Dolce & Gabbana Sicily.
It has been pointed out that this accords well with the Jesuit policy of depreciating the royal while exalting the papal prerogative.