de-, 向下，强调。-prec, 祈祷，词源同precatory, imprecate, pray. 原义为祈祷恶魔离开，强烈的憎恶，后词义通用化，强烈反对。

1. As a lawyer, I would deprecate any sort of legal control on gene therapy at this stage.

作为律师，我会反对在现阶段对基因疗法进行任何形式的法律管制。

2. Some pacifists and all militarists deprecate social and political conflicts.

某些和平主义者和一切军国主义者都反对社会性和政治性的斗争.

3. I strongly deprecate the use of violence by the students.

我强烈反对学生们使用暴力.

4. Some of these, in turn , deprecate the term human resources as useless.

因此,其中也有些认为人力资源这个词语毫无用处.

5. The fashion now is to deprecate the positive contributions of Keynesian economics.

否认凯恩斯主义经济理论的积极贡献已成为当前的一种时尚.