devalued
past simple and past participle ofdevalue
| 单词 | devalued |
| 释义 | devalued past simple and past participle ofdevalue devalue verb uk/ˌdiːˈvæl.juː/us/ˌdiːˈvæl.juː/devalueverb(MONEY)[IorT] toreducetherateat whichmoneycan beexchangedforforeignmoney: LastyearMexico wasforcedto devalue thepeso. Price decreases
devalueverb(NOT VALUE)[T] tocausesomeone or something to beconsideredlessvaluableorimportant: I don'twantto devalue hisachievement, but hemanagedto get apromotionwithoutworkingvery hard. Deteriorating and making worse
Examplesofdevalueddevalued In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is certainly an asset to be able to play the piano, but this ability isdevaluedif the teacher is afraid to sing. From theCambridge English Corpus Forms that diverge aredevaluedby the dominant ideologies. From theCambridge English Corpus This physicality is oftendevalued, however, and on many projects skilled professionals can be regarded as little more than unskilled labourers. From theCambridge English Corpus Many of these ambiguities of usage weredevaluedand minimized as language became a site of political and cultural contestation in the nationalist period. From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast, audience memory becomesdevaluedas subjective, inaccessible, and disappearing. From theCambridge English Corpus The intellectual currency of colonialism and postcolonialism is becoming as rapidlydevaluedas that of domination and resistance. From theCambridge English Corpus Communal criteria were valued higher than either individual or cognitive performance, with the latter being significantlydevaluedas an independent value. From theCambridge English Corpus Parties that form under democratic competition make specific investments in mass mobilization that would bedevaluedif democracy were to collapse. From theCambridge English Corpus These unique behaviors are thusdevaluedand viewed with disdain ("dissed"). From theCambridge English Corpus Nonetheless, the literate skills were consistentlydevaluedin relation to oral communication and transmission of knowledge. From theCambridge English Corpus Gal 1993 suggests that in such resistance,devaluedpractices may be seen as embodying alternate social models of the world. From theCambridge English Corpus One teacher felt that you learnt your scales so that you could apply them to repertoire, and that learning them through repertoiredevaluedthe music. From theCambridge English Corpus Conversely, those who remain settled may be disempowered, because traditional communities - social organizations gathered in space and developed over time - aredevalued. From theCambridge English Corpus He had proposed devaluation, the guilder had beendevalued, and contrary to popular predictions it had (at least) not been harmful to the economy. From theCambridge English Corpus Our findings suggest that elements of retinal circuits do not disappear as their functions aredevalued. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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