deprecate
verb
dep·re·cate
ˈde-pri-ˌkāt 
deprecated; deprecating; deprecates
1
: to express disapproval of
deprecates such attempts at humor
2
3
: to withdraw official support for or discourage the use of (something, such as a software product) in favor of a newer or better alternative
… the Google Drive app for PC and Mac is officially being deprecated and the company's developers announced … that it will no longer be supported …—
Rhett Jones
Rhett JonesIn the case of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft is deprecating and removing more than 20 features.—Mauro Huculak
Mauro Huculak4
a
: to seek to avert
… deprecate the wrath … of the Roman people.—Tobias Smollett
Tobias Smollett
b
archaic
: to pray against (something, such as an evil)
Examples of deprecate in a Sentence
movie critics tried to outdo one another in deprecating the comedy as the stupidest movie of the year
deprecates TV sitcoms as childish and simpleminded
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The 45-year-old actor has always projected a sort of likable, hunky lunkhead persona, giving the movies their equivalent of the campus jock that secretly had a sly sense of self-deprecating humor and theater-department chops.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
Microsoft’s first Kerberos implementation protects a password from cracking attacks by representing it as a hash generated with a single iteration of Microsoft’s NTLM cryptographic hash function, which itself is a modification of the super-fast, and now deprecated, MD4 hash function.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Apple has deprecated Launchpad in macOS 26 and replaced it with the Apps launcher in the Dock.
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
But the form was still slightly deprecated by much of the art Establishment, who thought of photographers as technicians more than conveyors of thought and depth.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 24 June 2025
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
Microsoft’s first Kerberos implementation protects a password from cracking attacks by representing it as a hash generated with a single iteration of Microsoft’s NTLM cryptographic hash function, which itself is a modification of the super-fast, and now deprecated, MD4 hash function.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Apple has deprecated Launchpad in macOS 26 and replaced it with the Apps launcher in the Dock.
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
But the form was still slightly deprecated by much of the art Establishment, who thought of photographers as technicians more than conveyors of thought and depth.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 24 June 2025
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“Deprecate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deprecate. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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deprecate
verb
dep·re·cate
ˈdep-ri-ˌkāt
deprecated; deprecating
1
: to express disapproval of
2
: to represent as of little value : depreciate
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