Synonyms for deprecate
ˈdɛp rɪˌkeɪtdep·re·cate

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1. deprecate

   Synonyms:
   disavow, disclaim, expostulate, intercede

   Antonyms:
   beg, supplicate, ask, entreat, request, imprecate, invoke

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1. deprecateverb

   express strong disapproval of; deplore

   Synonyms:
   vilipend, depreciate

2. deprecate, depreciate, vilipendverb

   belittle

   "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"

   Synonyms:
   devalue, undervalue, vilipend, devaluate, depreciate

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1. • Disapprove

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1. deprecateverb

   Synonyms:
   pray to be delivered from, seek deliverance from, try to avert by prayer, make entreaty against

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1. Frederick Douglass:

   If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

2. Frederick Douglas:

   The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

3. Frederick Douglas:

   Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.