Meanings
present singular third person devaluates · participle present devaluating · participle past devaluated · past devaluated
- transitiveTo devalue, reduce in value.
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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 TimesSynonyms: depress
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo devalue, reduce in value.
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devaluate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devaluate
“devaluate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devaluate. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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