devaluate

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word devaluate. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word devaluate, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say devaluate in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word devaluate you have here. The definition of the word devaluate will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofdevaluate, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Pronunciation

Verb

devaluate (third-person singular simple present devaluates, present participle devaluating, simple past and past participle devaluated)

  1. (transitive) To devalue, reduce in value.
    • 2007 November 1, Guy Trebay, “Where Art Meets Fashion Meets Celebrity Meets Hype”, in New York Times:
      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.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

devaluate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of devaluar combined with te