0 to reduce the rate at which money can be exchanged for foreign money: --
1 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.
2 to reduce the rate at which one currency can be exchanged for another: --
4 to make someone or something seem to be of less value or importance: --
Foreclosures devalue nearby homes and entire neighborhoods.
Let us not devalue the work that he has done.
The result is a pattern of punitive responses to and low expectations of children who show competencies in skills generally unrecognized or devalued.
Dismissing adults attempt to limit or minimize the influence of attachment relationships by dismissing, devaluing, or conversely idealizing attachment relationships and experiences.
448 responses or responses that devalued the children's emotions, tended to be related negatively to children's adaptive coping.
A few women argued that they had accepted their socially devalued status even as they lamented the equation of beauty with youthfulness.
Our findings suggest that elements of retinal circuits do not disappear as their functions are devalued.
Making western nations the model ignored the possibility of different paths to development, thereby devaluing the history and tradition of those concerned.
Sadly, this devalues the comparative strength of an otherwise detailed and engaging book.
He had proposed devaluation, the guilder had been devalued, and contrary to popular predictions it had (at least) not been harmful to the economy.
