depreciate
verb (used with object)
to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
was depreciating
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past progressiveof depreciate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The rial was depreciating again on Monday against the greenback after strengthening in recent days, according to the informal black-market rate, which stands at around 1.4 million rials, compared with about 770,000 a year earlier.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
This meant that even as the company was trying to prop up its brand through its flagship stores channel, it was depreciating it through the factory stores channel.
From Forbes ● Jul. 1, 2014
He made it real: Time had passed and I was depreciating.
From Forbes ● Feb. 25, 2013
Property was depreciating, and a feeling of insecurity seized upon the people.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
The sense that Sir James was depreciating Will, and behaving rudely to him, roused her resolution and dignity: there was no touch of confusion in her manner.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
