depreciating

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depreciating

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of depreciate

adjective more depreciating · most depreciating

That is declining in value.
That degrades the value of something; deprecating. Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be far from satisfied by this assurance, or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police.

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@misc{depreciating_2026,
  title = {depreciating},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/depreciating},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}