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disvaluing

disvaluing is the present participle and gerund of disvalue.

Meaning of disvalue

Verb

disvalue (third-person singular simple present disvalues, present participle disvaluing, simple past and past participle disvalued)

  1. To regard something as having little or no value.
  2. To undervalue; to depreciate.
    • […] five years since there was some speech of marriage
      Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,
      Partly for that her promised proportions
      Came short of composition, but in chief
      For that her reputation was disvalued
      In levity […]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about disvaluing

What is disvaluing the present participle and gerund of?
Disvaluing is the present participle and gerund of disvalue.

Words near disvaluing in the dictionary

  1. disvaluation
  2. disvaluations
  3. disvalue
  4. disvalued
  5. disvalues
  6. disvaluing
  7. disvantageous
  8. disvelop
  9. disveloped
  10. disveloping
  11. disvelops

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