devaluate

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UK/dɪˈvæl.juː.eɪt/US/dɪˈvæl.ju.eɪt/Australia/dɪˈvæl.jʉː.æɪt/

verb

To devalue, reduce in value.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbdevaluate (third-person singular simple present devaluates, present participle devaluating, simple past and past participle devaluated)

present singular third person devaluates · participle present devaluating · participle past devaluated · past devaluated

  1. transitiveTo devalue, reduce in value.
    1 more example

    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

    Synonyms: depress

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo devalue, reduce in value.

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More synonyms by meaning

verbremove the value from; deprive of its value

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APA

devaluate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devaluate

MLA

“devaluate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devaluate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “devaluate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devaluate.

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