Detracted - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

verb

Dismiss (someone or something) as unimportant.

Примеры использования:

She belittled amy's riding skills whenever she could

verb

To make an action or a person seem unimportant

Примеры использования:

You gain nothing by belittling him and creating bad feelings.

verb

To make a person or an action seem as if he, she or it is not important

Примеры использования:

Though she had spent hours fixing the computer, he belittled her efforts., stop belittling yourself…

idiom

Bar from attention or consideration

phrasal verb

Dismiss something as being unimportant or not worth consideration; disregard something.

Примеры использования:

He brushed aside attacks on his policies

phrasal verb

To refuse to give importance to an opinion or request, or to someone who expresses one

Примеры использования:

Duke brushed aside suggestions that his campaign was finished.

verb

Publicly denounce.

Примеры использования:

They decried human rights abuses

verb

To publicly criticize something as being undesirable or harmful

Примеры использования:

Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state.

verb

To criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary

Примеры использования:

Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.

verb

Criticize unfairly; disparage.

Примеры использования:

Doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country

verb

To say that someone or something is not good or important

verb

Diminish in value over a period of time.

Примеры использования:

The latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year

verb

To cause something to lose value, esp. over time

Примеры использования:

Malawi’s currency was rapidly depreciating., the dollar’s depreciation will lead to higher inflatio…

verb

When a company depreciates an asset, such as a piece of equipment, it reduces its value in its accounts over a certain length of time

Примеры использования:

Machine tools are typically depreciated over seven years., the government allowed the currency to d…

verb

Reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.

Примеры использования:

I resent the way people seem to devalue my achievement

verb

To reduce the rate at which one currency can be exchanged for another

Примеры использования:

It caused a major crisis when the pound was devalued., the banking system was in trouble before the…

verb

To reduce the rate at which money can be exchanged for foreign money

Примеры использования:

Last year mexico was forced to devalue the peso.

verb

Make or become less.

Примеры использования:

The new law is expected to diminish the government's chances

verb

To reduce or be reduced in size or importance

Примеры использования:

[ i ] the threat of inflation is diminishing., [ t ] a single-payer system would diminish the burea…

verb

To reduce or be reduced in size, importance, or value

Примеры использования:

If consumers start losing confidence, it will diminish demand for household goods., investors can d…

noun

A deduction from the usual cost of something.

Примеры использования:

Rail commuters get a discount on season tickets

verb

Deduct an amount from (the usual price of something).

Примеры использования:

A product may carry a price which cannot easily be discounted

noun

A reduction in the usual price

Примеры использования:

Give someone a discount they usually give you a discount if you buy multiple copies., discount on t…

verb

Make or become less; diminish.

Примеры использования:

The years have lessened the gap in age between us

verb

To become or make something smaller in amount or degree

Примеры использования:

[ t ] keeping your weight down can lessen the risk of heart disease.

verb

To make something smaller, less noticeable, etc., or to become smaller, less noticeable, etc.

Примеры использования:

Corporate executives are keen to embrace "green technology" in order to lessen their dependence on …

adjective

Less high in position.

Примеры использования:

The lower levels of the building

adverb

Denoting an older (and hence usually deeper) part of a stratigraphic division or archaeological deposit or the period in which it was formed or deposited.

Примеры использования:

Lower cretaceous

verb

Move (someone or something) in a downward direction.

Примеры использования:

He watched the coffin being lowered into the ground

idiom

To act as if something is not serious, esp. when it is serious

Примеры использования:

They've both had knee injuries, but the two friends make light of their weaknesses.

verb

Reduce (something, especially something undesirable) to the smallest possible amount or degree.

Примеры использования:

The aim is to minimize costs

verb

To reduce something to the smallest possible level or amount

Примеры использования:

We do all that we can to minimize the risk of infection., he minimized his involvement in the scand…

verb

To reduce something to the smallest possible level or amount

Примеры использования:

We rented an office in the cheap part of town to minimize costs., you should spread your investment…

phrase

Understate the importance or quality of

phrasal verb

Represent something as being less important than it in fact is.

Примеры использования:

He tried to play down the seriousness of his illness

phrasal verb

To make something seem less important than or not as bad as it really is

Примеры использования:

The doctor tried to play down the seriousness of my father’s illness, but we weren’t fooled.

verb

Make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

Примеры использования:

The need for businesses to reduce costs

verb

Make smaller

verb

To make something less in size, amount, degree, importance, or price

Примеры использования:

A low-fat diet can reduce the risk of heart disease., grunn employs 17,900 people, but that number …

verb

To treat something unpleasant as less important, because you want to avoid angering or hurting people

Примеры использования:

The movie soft-pedals the more sensational aspects of his life.

verb

Make (something) seem less important, significant, or complex than it really is.

Примеры использования:

The problem was either trivialized or ignored by teachers

verb

To make something unusual seem ordinary or unimportant

Примеры использования:

My boss tends to take good ideas and trivialize them.