deturpate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin deturpare; de + turpare (“to make ugly, defile”), turpis (“ugly, foul”).

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To defile; to disfigure.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deturpate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Verb

deturpate

1. second-person plural present indicative of deturpare
2. second-person plural imperative of deturpare
3. feminine plural of deturpato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēturpāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēturpō