MEANING
1. To express disapproval of or argue against something.
2. To mark a feature or practice as obsolete or discouraged while it may remain available.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- deprecate a practice
- deprecate violence
On the page
The magistrate deprecated the use of threats.
She deprecated the custom without condemning everyone who followed it.
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Word forms
- Base
- deprecate
- Past tense
- deprecated
- Past participle
- deprecated
- Present participle
- deprecating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deprecate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deprecating
- Present perfect
- have/has deprecated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deprecating
- Past
- deprecated
- Past continuous
- was/were deprecating
- Past perfect
- had deprecated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deprecating
- Future
- will deprecate
- Future continuous
- will be deprecating
- Future perfect
- will have deprecated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deprecating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: deprecate; deprecates; deprecated; deprecated; deprecating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: deprecates.
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