Verb
To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.
Source: Webster's dictionaryArchitects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. Kenzo Tange
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. Warren Buffett
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. Alfred Adler
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Carl Jung
An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ. Henry Clay Trumbull