Deprecate

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  • v.反对
  • [英] v.反对 ( express disapproval of; belittle)
  • [类] deprecate : value / restrict : diameter ( 轻视价值 / 限制直径) 反义词: extol ( 赞美) ; vaunt ( 吹嘘)

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transitive verb (-cated; -cating)

  • Etymology: Latin deprecatus, past participle of deprecari to avert by prayer, from de- + precari to pray — more at pray
  • Date: 1628
  • 1.
    • a. archaic to pray against (as an evil)
    • b. to seek to avert <deprecate the wrath…of the Roman people — Tobias Smollett>
  • 2. to express disapproval of
  • 3.
    • a. play down ; make little of <speaks five languages…but deprecates this facility — Time>
    • b. belittle, disparage <the most reluctantly admired and least easily deprecated of…novelists — New Yorker>
  • ? deprecatingly adverb
  • ? deprecation noun


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