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deprecate

D EH1 P R AH0 K EY2 T  :  

belittle
express strong disapproval of; deplore
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Computer programmers see this word used all the time for features/commands that are no longer being supported and may go away in the future.

This is now endemic in society: You have to choose sides, and once you do you must deprecate the other side regardless of reason or logic. We see it in politics. We see it in cola wars. We see it in PC vs Mac wars. Link

For these reasons we would deprecate a practice of withholding such opinion until a time when it appears likely that the jury may not agree without its expression. Link

My statement was not intended to deprecate your opinion, but merely to indicate that I would also like to hear opinions from others, in particular those who might not have thought much about the question before. Link

Steve Jobs has apparently weighed into the debate over Apple's decision to deprecate Java on the Mac, and his terse explanation was promptly deprecated by Java founder James Gosling. Link

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