deprave
verb /dɪˈpreɪv/
/dɪˈpreɪv/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they deprave | /dɪˈpreɪv/ /dɪˈpreɪv/ |
| he / she / it depraves | /dɪˈpreɪvz/ /dɪˈpreɪvz/ |
| past simple depraved | /dɪˈpreɪvd/ /dɪˈpreɪvd/ |
| past participle depraved | /dɪˈpreɪvd/ /dɪˈpreɪvd/ |
| -ing form depraving | /dɪˈpreɪvɪŋ/ /dɪˈpreɪvɪŋ/ |
- deprave somebody to make somebody morally bad synonym corrupt
- In my view this book would deprave young children.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘pervert the meaning or intention of something’): from Old French depraver or Latin depravare, from de- ‘down, thoroughly’ + pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.