Deprave
verb
verb ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile transitive
- 2 corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality wordnet
- 3 To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt transitive
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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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