deprecate
verb (used with object)
to express earnest disapproval of.
am deprecating
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present progressiveof deprecate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Now let nobody suppose that I am deprecating a change.
From Mushrooms on the Moor by Frank Boreham
That's the very thing they have done and which I am deprecating; and you suggest that I should follow their example.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
Do not understand that I am deprecating these pleasures.
From The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon by Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
