Usually means: Diminish in value or quality.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. derogate: Merriam-Webster
  2. derogate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derogate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derogate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. derogate: Vocabulary.com
  6. derogate: Wordnik
  7. derogate: Wiktionary
  8. derogate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. derogate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. derogate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Derogate, derogate: Dictionary.com
  12. Derogate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Derogate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. derogate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. derogate: Rhymezone
  16. Derogate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. derogate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. derogate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. derogate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. derogate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. derogate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derogate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derogate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derogate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
verb:  (intransitive) To remove a part, to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
adjective:  (archaic) debased

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