Verb

(belittl)

To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.

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Verb

(en verb)

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.

Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

* Walsh

Discount only unexceptionable paper.

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

* Sir William Hamilton

Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.

:They discounted his comments.

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.