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devaluing

devaluing is the present participle and gerund of devalue.

Meaning of devalue

Verb

devalue (third-person singular simple present devalues, present participle devaluing, simple past and past participle devalued)

  1. (transitive) To lower or remove the value of something.
    • Scotland is beaten only by properties in London, which increase in value by 64% on average when within half a mile of a station - although in some cases in the capital, being near to a station devalues the house.2023 January 25, Mel Holley, “Network News: London leads the way on rail-related house price surge”, in RAIL, number 975, page 15
  2. (intransitive) To lose value; to depreciate.

Noun

devaluing (countable and uncountable, plural devaluings)

  1. devaluation
    • The central points made in these various deconstructions of the nature of genius and devaluings of the cultivation of individuality are surely correct.2014, Richard Eldridge, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, page 132

Forms of devaluing

pluraldevaluings

Questions about devaluing

What does devaluing mean?
Devaluing means devaluation.
What is devaluing the present participle and gerund of?
Devaluing is the present participle and gerund of devalue.
What part of speech is devaluing?
Devaluing is a noun.
What is the plural of devaluing?
The plural of devaluing is devaluings.

Words near devaluing in the dictionary

  1. devalue
  2. devalued
  3. devaluer
  4. devaluers
  5. devalues
  6. devaluing
  7. devaluings
  8. Devamidha
  9. devan
  10. Devanagari
  11. Devanagari numeral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devaluing (page history and authors); devalue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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