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Deprave

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile transitive
  2. 2
    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality wordnet
  3. 3
    To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt transitive

Etymology

From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).

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