No. 5,222 in Russian
обесценить
To devalue or depreciate.
In a sentence
Автор пытается обесценить достигнутый прогресс.
The author tries to devalue the achieved progress.
Here, 'обесценить' is used to mean devalue figuratively, representing a diminished perceived importance or worth of progress.
Экономический кризис смог обесценить валюту.
The economic crisis managed to devalue the currency.
Here, 'обесценить' is applied literally to indicate a decrease in monetary value.
Он сделал замечание чтобы обесценить её идею.
He made a remark to devalue her idea.
In this sentence, 'обесценить' describes the act of undermining or trivializing someone's idea.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “обесценить” in actual Russian podcasts.
Find “обесценить” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Russian podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into русский, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Russian books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).