deturpate

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English

Etymology

Latin deturpare; de + turpare (“to make ugly, defile”), turpis (“ugly, foul”).

Pronunciation

Verb

deturpate (third-person singular simple present deturpates, present participle deturpating, simple past and past participle deturpated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To defile; to disfigure.
    • 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
      Such as that which is to be seen in Burchards , and such which are too largely described in Sanchez ; which thing does not only deturpate all honest and modest conversation , but it teaches men to understand more sins then ever they knew of.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

deturpate

  1. inflection of deturpare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

deturpate f pl

  1. feminine plural of deturpato

Latin

Verb

dēturpāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēturpō

Spanish

Verb

deturpate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of deturpar combined with te
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