Deprecate



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• 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)

Webster Collegiate

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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