Crossword-Solution: DEROGATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Derogate | v. t. | To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law. |
| Derogate | v. t. | To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing. |
| Derogate | v. i. | To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from. |
| Derogate | v. i. | To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. |
| Derogate | n. | Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEROGATE | anagram | AGREEDTO, GEAREDTO |
We have 18 clues for the answer “DEROGATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Stray in conduct | 1 answer |
| MAKE injurious abatement | 1 answer |
| MAKE improper abatement | 1 answer |
| Act beneath one's position | 1 answer |
| Detract (from). | 2 answers |
| Lose face | 4 answers |
| detract | 19 answers |
| dispraise | 26 answers |
| Decry | 41 answers |
| depreciate | 42 answers |
| asperse | 48 answers |
| Degrade | 52 answers |
| Belittle | 54 answers |
| Diminish | 59 answers |
| Disparage | 60 answers |
| Lessen | 64 answers |
| Lessening | 76 answers |
| Lower | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEROGATE (5)
Let it not be thought that in this comment there is any desire to derogate from the position which Ader should occupy in any study of the pioneers of aeronautical enterprise.
She may thus derogate, for the exceedingly Elizabethan reason that she is "brown." She is brown and kind, and a "sad flower," but the song made for her would have been too insipid, apparently, without an antithesis.
Against eternity? A rifting light in me Burns through the leaden broodings of the mind: O blessèd Sun, thy state Uprisen or derogate Dafts me no more with doubt; I seek and find.
The Baron resumed his favourite topic: 'However it may please you to derogate from the honour of your burgonet, Colonel Talbot, which is doubtless your humour, as I have seen in other gentlemen of birth and honour in your country, I must again repeat it as a most ancient and distinguished bearing, as well as that of my young friend Francis Stanley, which is the eagle and child.' 'The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir,' said Stanley.
Savages in general, and particularly the Maories, have a notion of dignity from which they never derogate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1960–2023).