Why do people keep misusing the word “deprecate”? Everyone I know seems to think deprecate means “to desupport” or to “end functionality” but it means “to disco

Why do people keep misusing the word “deprecate”? Everyone I know seems to think deprecate means “to desupport” or to “end functionality” but it means “to discourage its use”. When someone says “we plan to deprecate it soon” they really mean “we plan to remove the feature soon”, since it’s already likely deprecated.