Depreciate vs Curtail - What's the difference?
depreciate | curtail |
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.
(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
* Macaulay
In lang=en terms the difference between depreciate and curtail
is that depreciate is to belittle while curtail is to shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.As verbs the difference between depreciate and curtail
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 curtail is (obsolete) to cut short the tail of an animal.As a noun curtail is
(architecture) a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.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)curtail
English
Verb
(en verb)- ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
- When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
- Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
- Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.
