0 past simple and past participle of devalue
1 to reduce the rate at which money can be exchanged for foreign money:
2 to cause someone or something to be considered less valuable or important:
I don't want to devalue his achievement, but he managed to get a promotion without working very hard.
It is certainly an asset to be able to play the piano, but this ability is devalued if the teacher is afraid to sing.
Forms that diverge are devalued by the dominant ideologies.
This physicality is often devalued, however, and on many projects skilled professionals can be regarded as little more than unskilled labourers.
Many of these ambiguities of usage were devalued and minimized as language became a site of political and cultural contestation in the nationalist period.
In contrast, audience memory becomes devalued as subjective, inaccessible, and disappearing.
The intellectual currency of colonialism and postcolonialism is becoming as rapidly devalued as that of domination and resistance.
Communal criteria were valued higher than either individual or cognitive performance, with the latter being significantly devalued as an independent value.
Parties that form under democratic competition make specific investments in mass mobilization that would be devalued if democracy were to collapse.
