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English
Etymology
From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).
Pronunciation
Verb
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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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.
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Spanish
Verb
deprave
- inflection of depravar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative