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2. belittle, minimize, underrate, undervalue, underestimate, underreckon; slight, make light of, think nothing of, set no store by, underplay, Inf. play down; derogate, detract from, discredit, disparage, decry, deprecate, Inf. talk down.
3. decline, fall, tumble, slide, slip, go down; sink, drop, slump, fall off, lose value.
depreciation, n. 1. devaluation, deflation, depression, cheapening; reduction, decrease, lowering, lessening, diminution, shrinkage; decline, fall, falling off, drop, slump.
2. belittlement, minimization, underestimation; derogation, pejoration, discrediting, disparagement, deprecation, detraction,
depredate, v. 1. plunder, rob, despoil, Archaic. spoil, spoliate, pillage, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, carry off, maraud, devastate; ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle; raid, foray, forage, prey on or upon; lay waste, desolate, wreak havoc upon, ruin, lay in ruins.
2. pirate, freeboot, buccaneer, privateer, filibuster; seize, capture, steal, thieve,
depredation, n. 1. plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, pillage, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; preying upon, ravaging, ravage, harrying, marauding, Archaic. maraud, sacking, Rare, sackage; laying waste, devastation, desolation; raid, inroad, razzia, foray; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grag, rape; kidnapping, hijacking, skyjacking, air piracy, commandeering.
2. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering, U.S. Inf. (usu. of cattle) rustling; robbery, theft, thievery, Law. larceny, stealing,
depredator, n. 1. pillager, plunderer, marauder, despoiler, ransacker, sacker, rifler, looter, forager, raider; ravager, destroyer.
2. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer; freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish Highlands) cateran; kidnapper, abductor, rustler, hijacker, skyjacker, air or sky pirate.
3. robber, burglar, thief, stealer, Inf. crook, housebreaker; highwayman, footpad, Sl. yegg or yeggman, bandit, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian, bushranger, brigand, picaroon, outlaw, desperado.
depress, v. 1. dispirit, dishearten, discourage, put [s.o.] down in the dumps or the doldrums. See - deject.
2. weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, enervate; exhaust, sap, drain, weary, tire; dull, deaden, kill.
3. devaluate, devalue, depreciate, cheapen; diminish, lessen, lower, reduce, cut, slash; degrade, downgrade, demote, break; humble, abase, take [s.o.] down a notch or peg or two, humiliate, mortify.
depressant, n. sedative, tranquilizer, soporific, hypnotic, sleeping-pill; alcohol, liquor, spirits, Inf. booze; analgesic, painkiller, aspirin; opiate, opium, codeine, morphine; barbiturate, Sl. barbs, Inf. down or downer, quaalude, Sl. lude, Brit, mandrax, Brit. Sl. mandy, Pharm., Trademark Seconal, Sl. red; heroin, Sl. H, Sl. horse, Sl. smack, Sl. crank, Sl. junk, Sl. scag.
depressed, adj. 1. dispirited, disheartened, crestfallen; unhappy, sad, blue, melancholy. See - dejected.
2. sunken, hollow, recessed, set back, pushed or poked in; concave, indented, dented, dimpled.
3. devaluated, devalued, cheapened, depreciated, degraded, downgraded; diminished, lessened, reduced, lowered, cut, slashed.
4. destitute, poverty-stricken, poor, strapped, bad off, Inf. hard up; lacking, needy, in need, in want.
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