disvalue

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verb

To regard something as having little or no value.

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Meanings

verbdisvalue (third-person singular simple present disvalues, present participle disvaluing, simple past and past participle disvalued)

present singular third person disvalues · participle present disvaluing · participle past disvalued · past disvalued

  1. To regard something as having little or no value.
  2. To undervalue; to depreciate.

    […] five years since there was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off, Partly for that her promised proportions Came short of composition, but in chief For that her reputation was disvalued In levity […]

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]
noun
  1. harm, demerit

Origin

From dis- + value.

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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