deprave
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
deprave (third-person singular simple present depraves, present participle depraving, simple past and past participle depraved)
- (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
- (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
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Translations[edit]
To speak ill of
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To make bad or worse
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Further reading[edit]
- “deprave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “deprave”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “deprave”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
deprave
- inflection of depravar:
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