DEVALUATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devaluate mean? 

• DEVALUATE (verb)
  The verb DEVALUATE has 2 senses:

1. remove the value from; deprive of its value

2. lose in value

  Familiarity information: DEVALUATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVALUATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they devaluate    ... he / she / it devaluates   
Past simple: devaluated   
Past participle: devaluated   
-ing form: devaluating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the value from; deprive of its value

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

devaluate; devalue

Hypernyms (to "devaluate" is one way to...):

cheapen; degrade (lower the grade of something; reduce its worth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "devaluate"):

demonetise; demonetize (deprive of value for payment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

devaluation (the reduction of something's value or worth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose in value

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

depreciate; devaluate; devalue; undervalue

Context example:

The dollar depreciated again

Hypernyms (to "devaluate" is one way to...):

decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)

Verb group:

depreciate (lower the value of something)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

devaluation (the reduction of something's value or worth)

devaluation (an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries)