Depreciate vs Abase - What's the difference?
depreciate | abase |
To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
* (rfdate) Cudworth
* (rfdate) Burke
To decline in value over time.
To belittle.
(archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade.
(obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.
In lang=en terms the difference between depreciate and abase
is that depreciate is to belittle while abase is to lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade .As verbs the difference between depreciate and abase
is that depreciate is to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue while abase is (archaic) to lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye .depreciate
English
Verb
(depreciat)- some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate .
- To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
Usage notes
* Do not confuse with deprecate , which means 'to disapprove of'. The meaning of deprecate'' has lately been encroaching on ''depreciate in the sense 'to belittle'.Synonyms
* (reduce in value over time) * (belittle) do downAntonyms
* (reduce in value over time) appreciate * (belittle) aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)abase
English
Verb
(abas)- "Saying so, he abased his lance''." - ''
- "Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased'' ." - ''Luke 14:11
