devaluate — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To devalue, reduce in value.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   depress

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

Verb

1. remove the value from; deprive of its value

   Synonyms

   devalue

   Broader terms

   degradecheapen

2. lose in value

   Synonyms

   depreciateundervaluedevalue

   Broader terms

   decreasediminishlessenfall

   Examples

   The dollar depreciated again