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downrate

[ doun-reyt ]

verb (used with object)

, down·rat·ed, down·rat·ing.
  1. to lower the rate of:

    to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.



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Example Sentences

Larner also detects in McCarthy "a deep-seated bitterness, which made him downrate individuals even as he was calling for a national policy of generosity."

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