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.
Our findings suggest that elements of retinal circuits do not disappear as their functions are devalued.
He had proposed devaluation, the guilder had been devalued, and contrary to popular predictions it had (at least) not been harmful to the economy.
Conversely, those who remain settled may be disempowered, because traditional communities - social organizations gathered in space and developed over time - are devalued.
One teacher felt that you learnt your scales so that you could apply them to repertoire, and that learning them through repertoire devalued the music.
Gal 1993 suggests that in such resistance, devalued practices may be seen as embodying alternate social models of the world.
Nonetheless, the literate skills were consistently devalued in relation to oral communication and transmission of knowledge.
These unique behaviors are thus devalued and viewed with disdain ("dissed").
Parties that form under democratic competition make specific investments in mass mobilization that would be devalued if democracy were to collapse.
