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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

devaluate en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈvæl.ju.eɪt/ (General-American)
  • /dɪˈvæl.juː.eɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɪˈvæl.jʉː.æɪt/ (Australia)

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To devalue, reduce in value.
    • Discomfort was built into the evening, as central to it as the Pirandello script, written in 1917, and which, as one critic noted, toys with how the social role built up by one character for himself is continually destroyed by another, devaluated into a sick sham existence that outsiders accept as real only out of pity. 2007 November 1, Guy Trebay, “Where Art Meets Fashion Meets Celebrity Meets Hype”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
devaluated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
devaluated Tense=Past lexicographic
devaluating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
devaluates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

devaluator

Synonyms

depress