deprave
English
Etymology
From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪv
Verb
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- (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
- (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
Related terms
Translations
To speak ill of
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To make bad or worse
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Further reading
- “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.
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
deprave
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of depravar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of depravar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of depravar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of depravar.
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪv
- English transitive verbs
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar