depreciate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they depreciate | |
| he / she / it depreciates | |
| past simple depreciated | |
| past participle depreciated | |
| -ing form depreciating |
- [intransitive]
to become less valuable over a period of time 贬值；跌价 New cars start to depreciate as soon as they are on the road. 新车一上路就开始贬值。 Shares continued to depreciate on the stock markets today. 今日股市股价继续下跌。
Extra ExamplesCars depreciate in value rapidly. 汽车贬值很快。 Sterling is expected to depreciate against the dollar. 预计英镑对美元的汇率会下跌。 The peso depreciated by 9%. 比索贬值了 9%。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quickly
- rapidly
- fully
- …
- be likely to
- against
- by
- depreciate in value
- [transitive] depreciate something (
business 商业 to reduce the value, as stated in the company’s accounts, of a particular asset over a particular period of time 折旧 The bank depreciates laptops over a period of five years. 该银行在五年内对笔记本电脑进行折旧。
- [transitive] depreciate something (formal)
to make something seem unimportant or of no value 贬低；轻视
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2)): from late Latin depreciat- ‘lowered in price, undervalued’, from the verb depreciare, from Latin de- ‘down’ + pretium ‘price’.