Lessen vs Depreciate - What's the difference?
lessen | depreciate | Synonyms |
To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
* Calamy
* Atterbury
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To become less.
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.
Lessen is a synonym of depreciate.
In lang=en terms the difference between lessen and depreciate
is that lessen is to become less while depreciate is to belittle.As verbs the difference between lessen and depreciate
is that lessen is to make less; to diminish; to reduce 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.lessen
English
Verb
(en verb)- Charity shall lessen his punishment.
- St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
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Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----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.