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Rebate vs Depreciate - What's the difference?

rebate | depreciate |

As verbs the difference between rebate and depreciate

is that rebate is while 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.

rebate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
  • The return of part of an amount already paid.
  • (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
  • A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
  • * '>citation
  • A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
  • An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
  • A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
  • Verb

    (rebat)
  • To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
  • To diminish or lessen something
  • To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
  • * Shakespeare
  • But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
  • To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
  • To abate; to withdraw.
  • (Foxe)

    Anagrams

    * * * English transitive verbs ----

    depreciate

    English

    Verb

    (depreciat)
  • 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
  • some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate .
  • * (rfdate) Burke
  • To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
  • To decline in value over time.
  • To belittle.
  • 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 down

    Antonyms

    * (reduce in value over time) appreciate * (belittle) aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)