Deprave \De*prave"\ (d[-e]*pr[=a]v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Depraved (d[-e]*pr[=a]vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Depraving.]
[L. depravare, depravatum; de- + pravus crooked, distorted,
perverse, wicked.]
1. To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
[Obs.]
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And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide
Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. --Piers
Plowman.
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2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
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Whose pride depraves each other better part.
--Spenser.
Syn: To corrupt; vitiate; contaminate; pollute.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
deprave
v : corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch
the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was
accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors
subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt,
pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch,
debase, profane, vitiate, misdirect]
WordNet (r) 2.0
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprave":
abuse, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, bastardize, befoul,
bewitch, blight, brutalize, canker, cheapen, coarsen, condemn,
confound, contaminate, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, debase,
debauch, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demoralize,
denature, desecrate, despoil, destroy, devalue, disadvantage,
disserve, distort, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill,
do wrong, do wrong by, doom, envenom, get into trouble, harass,
harm, hex, hurt, impair, infect, injure, jinx, maltreat, menace,
mistreat, misuse, molest, outrage, persecute, pervert,
play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice,
prostitute, ravage, ravish, savage, scathe, taint, threaten,
torment, torture, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize,
warp, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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