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> deprecate and depreciate deprecate and depreciate are liable to be confused although they have totally different meanings. Deprecate means "to express disapproval of", as in "It was unsporting of him to deprecate his rival's performance" and "deprecate their choice of furnishings". Depreciate means "to reduce in value", as in "New cars depreciate very quickly". It also means "to belittle or disparage", as in "They made great efforts to help but she depreciated them", "Management depreciated the role the deputy manager played in the firm". In modern usage deprecate is sometimes used with the second meaning of depreciate, as in "He was always praising his elder son's work and deprecating that of his younger son although the latter was the cleverer pupil". Pour éviter fautes de grammaire, contresens et confusions. The English Usage Dictionary est le parfait complément des dictionnaires bilingues, du dictionnaire de définitions anglaises et du Thesaurus. Ce dictionnaire signale toutes les difficultés que recèle l'usage d'un mot: orthographe, grammaire, prononciation, homonymies, etc. Exemple d'article du dictionnaire English Usage Dictionary