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Discredit vs Devaluate - What's the difference?

discredit | devaluate |

As a noun discredit

is disrepute.

As a verb devaluate is

to reduce in value.

discredit

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
    • The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.
    The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.

    Synonyms

    * demean, disgrace, dishonour, disprove, invalidate, tell against

    Derived terms

    * discreditor

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved.
    • Later accounts have brought the story into discredit .
  • A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
  • * Rogers
    • It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

    Synonyms

    * (degree of dishonour) demerit

    devaluate

    English

    Verb

    (devaluat)
  • To reduce in value.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 1, author=Guy Trebay, title=Where Art Meets Fashion Meets Celebrity Meets Hype, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Discomfort was built into the evening, as central to it as the Pirandello script, written in 1917, and which, as one critic noted, toys with how the social role built up by one character for himself is continually destroyed by another, devaluated into a sick sham existence that outsiders accept as real only out of pity. }}