depreciator

Variant of depreciate

transitive verb depreciated, depreciating

  1. to reduce in value or price
  2. to make seem less important; belittle; disparage

Origin: ME depreciaten < LL depretiatus, pp. of depretiare, to lower the price of (in LL(Ec), to make light of) < L de-, from + pretiare, to value < pretium, price

intransitive verb

to drop in value or price

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