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deprecate

To make invalid or obsolete by removing or flagging the item. When commands or statements in a language are planned for deletion in future releases of the compiler or rendering engine, they are said to be deprecated. Programmers should begin to remove them from the source code in subsequent revisions of their programs. See flagging and nugatory.
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This only could it be - this only till he recognised, with his advance, that what made the face dim was the pair of raised hands that covered it and in which, so far from being offered in defiance, it was buried, as for dark deprecation. So Brydon, before him, took him in; with every fact of him now, in the higher light, hard and acute - his planted stillness, his vivid truth, his grizzled bent head and white masking hands, his queer actuality of evening-dress, of dangling double eye-glass, of gleaming silk lappet and white linen, of pearl button and gold watch-guard and polished shoe.
My companion waved his hand in contemptuous deprecation.
'Hem!' said Squeers, as if in mild deprecation of this outbreak.
He pursued his theme, however, without noticing my deprecation. "This very day I shall take you in the carriage to Millcote, and you must choose some dresses for yourself.
I with leave of speech implor'd, And humble deprecation thus repli'd.
But now " He shrugged his shoulders in humorous deprecation of the state of things which he had himself done so much to produce.
They solved all their problems successfully, including those of knowing none of the people they didn't wish to, and of finding plenty of occupation in a society supposed to be meagrely provided with resources for that body which Vogelstein was to hear invoked, again and again, with the mixture of desire and of deprecation that might have attended the mention of a secret vice, under the name of a leisure-class.
This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, deprecation and amortisation more than doubled to GBP20.2 million from GBP9.9 million the prior year.
Albeit, gross margins of ACPL dropped by 5ppts YoY to 25% during the period under review in light of weaker domestic dispatches to 482k tons tagged with 20% deprecation in the Pak Rupee against USD.
This is the seventh round of rupee deprecation since December 2017.
However, the inter-bank rate, registered a deprecation of 65 paisa as the dollar traded at Rs141 against Rs140.35 on Thursday.
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