On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 18:11:03 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary has this to say... > > dep-re-cate 1. to express mild or regretful disapproval of 2. > DEPRECIATE
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 5th ed. says "to feel and express disapproval of sth"; no "mild" there. And dict(1) includes: From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]: deprecate v 1: express strong disapproval of; deplore 2: belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" [syn: {depreciate}] So we have the whole spectrum (mild, neutral/unspecified strength, strong)... don't you just love the fluidity of natural language? Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one the blocks live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan