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present participle and gerund of depreciate examples
comparative more depreciating, superlative most depreciating
That is declining in value. examples
That degrades the value of something; deprecating. quotations examples
Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be far from satisfied by this assurance, or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police.
1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section VII