Verb (used without object) : The currency has devalued at a rapid rate. From Dictionary.com.
Its ludicrous to assert that the government has become 'devalued'. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
This is because goal-irrelevant objects tend to be "devalued" relative to their default value. From Wordnik.com. [Implicit Prejudice, the IAT, and the Popular Press] Reference
European games 'devalued' for Northampton Saints - West. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
But getting back to your point, frankly I think it was "devalued" when it went to Arafat. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Advani alleged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has 'devalued' the top post as head of the party. From Wordnik.com. [Zee News : India National] Reference
As to whether she has "devalued" you because of your redundancy, well, | I would have thought that you'd know the answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Rove was on a non-stop campaign the entire time he was at the White House and we saw Georges approval ratings 'devalued' way down. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
Such as devalued subprime mortgages -- that are weighing down their ability to lend. From Wordnik.com. [GovExec.com Top News] Reference
"devalued" the monarchy, although Zarzuela Palace denied that the photographs were anything other than authentic. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
# posted by Garth : 2:17 PM the only aspect of marriage that is being "devalued" is the idea that it can only be between a man and a woman. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Opposition excellence becomes, by consequence, devalued. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan betting scandal: When two bowlers overstep their mark] Reference
As soon as a job is devalued enough, they offer it to us. From Wordnik.com. [Patent Leather, Impure Thoughts] Reference
"While Gartner has acquired us we have not been devalued," Lewis said. From Wordnik.com. [Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown] Reference
Italy and France routinely devalued their currencies to push up exports. From Wordnik.com. [The Club of Competitors] Reference
Ironically, the freedoms they helped achieve devalued the intellectuals. From Wordnik.com. [Solzhenitsyn Goes Home] Reference
He does not want his finest hour (s) as a Test cricketer to be devalued. From Wordnik.com. [High praise for Stuart Broad's finest hour does not overstep the mark] Reference
Season 5 of The Wire shows what we lose when fine city desk reporting is devalued. From Wordnik.com. [Jillian Burt: How Should Complex Digital Works Be Reviewed?] Reference
At the time, Simon brazenly devalued gift cards by hundreds of thousands of dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Mall coughs up quarter-million-dollars for bogus gift-card fees] Reference
Ethiopia has sharply devalued its currency - the birr - in a bid to boost economic growth. From Wordnik.com. [Ethiopia Devalues Its Currency by 17 Percent] Reference
Companies like these will be wrestling with the twin effects of Asia's devalued currencies. From Wordnik.com. [This Love Could Hurt] Reference
If they can't, their Contract could seem as devalued come October as the president does now. From Wordnik.com. [Calling Newt's Bluff] Reference
The original idea was that since things were so devalued, taxpayers would be getting a bargain. From Wordnik.com. [TARP: One Year Later] Reference
But it seems to me it's the best way to begin, when it's simultaneously devalued and invaluable. From Wordnik.com. [Still Needing The F Word] Reference
We all know how devalued the win statistic has become as a means to measure the value of a pitcher. From Wordnik.com. [More hard luck for Livan Hernandez] Reference
That gave Thai companies an advantage over companies in neighboring countries, which also devalued. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong Ain't Sheboygan] Reference
Hacker says he hates to use the word racism -- "it's been devalued" -- but that's his root explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Apartheid, American Style] Reference
The 12th century's technological marvel, the crossbow, shrank battlefield distances and devalued armor. From Wordnik.com. [From Bayonets To Tomahawks] Reference
A year later, after winning elections, he devalued the franc by 20 percent to help pay for the wage hikes. From Wordnik.com. [One Euro, One State] Reference
She carried within her the memory of what it was like to be reflexively devalued despite being smart and capable. From Wordnik.com. [Remembrance Of Things Past] Reference
But no country has ever defaulted, devalued and put a moratorium on payments before in its history, '' says Browder. From Wordnik.com. [A Black Hole] Reference
Once scandalous matters like divorce, infidelity and illegitimacy have been devalued, their power to shame defanged. From Wordnik.com. [Family Secrets] Reference
In a while, he predicts, things will settle down, just as they did a few years ago after European countries devalued. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong Ain't Sheboygan] Reference
In late 1994, after the debt-choked government devalued the peso, Mexicans began losing their businesses, homes and cars. From Wordnik.com. [A Toast To Trouble] Reference
Once Kiriyenko announced that the ruble would be devalued on Aug. 17, the Central Bank knew that banks would be in deep trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Roulette] Reference
Meanwhile the country is enduring its worst recession in half a century, with unemployment at 20 percent and a sharply devalued peso. From Wordnik.com. [Earth's Blood] Reference
But it's her door into a discussion of "the beautiful" — and how the modernist sensibility has devalued it in favor of "the interesting.". From Wordnik.com. [Books: Sontag's Last Stands] Reference
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