DEPRECATE
(verb) belittle
"The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"
synonyms : depreciate , vilipend(verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore
movie critics tried to outdo one another in deprecating the comedy as the stupidest movie of the year -added by nithi
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(Tag: ) You can think of it as the opposite of appreciate (as in devalue against value). So lack of appreciation;ie,humiliation or belittling.
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(Tag: ) deprecate(relate this to depreciate)...and doller started depreciating ..textiles and software companies protested against it.
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(Tag: ) de-prec-ate = remove the preciousness of something , thus disapprove or belittle it.
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(Tag: ) Adding an "i" behind "c" of the word Deprecate, we have Depreciate which has the same meaning as Deprecate.
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(Tag: ) (just remember PREvious to CAT) deprecate means PROTEST AGAINST CAT exam PREviously.
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(Tag: ) Java 1.2's warning as methods are deprecated.. they are saying we are not approving it usage anymore
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