deprave

[US]/dɪˈpreɪv/
[UK]/dɪˈpreɪv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

v. corrupt
Word Forms
Present Participledepraving
Past Participledepraved
Third Person Singulardepraves
Pluraldepraves
Past Tensedepraved

Phrases & Collocations

depraved behavior

Example Sentences

this book would deprave and corrupt young children.

he was a depraved lecher.

Do sadistic films deprave the viewers?

indulgence that depraves the moral fiber;

he was a depraved man who had abused his two young daughters.

The novel depicts the depraved nature of the main character.

He was led astray by a depraved group of friends.

The movie portrays a depraved society filled with corruption.

She was shocked by the depraved behavior of the criminals.

The depraved actions of the dictator led to widespread suffering.

The depraved individual showed no remorse for his crimes.

The depraved environment of the prison influenced the inmates' behavior.

The novel delves into the depraved mindset of the antagonist.

The depraved cult lured vulnerable individuals into their ranks.

Real-world Examples

It was undoubtedly depraved and a great misfortune for me to feel it.

Source: Volume Two of the Confessions

Such a woman is not a more irrational monster than some of the Roman emperors, who were depraved by lawless power.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 1)

Tolstoy made the mistake of confusing two matters, both of which he took deeply to heart: the depraving power of music, and the depraving power of love.

Source: The Biography of Tolstoy

Let men take their choice, man and woman were made for each other, though not to become one being; and if they will not improve women, they will deprave them!

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

She then justly and humanely adds — This has given rise to the trite and foolish observation, that the first fault against chastity in woman has a radical power to deprave the character.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

But what sense is there in imprisoning a man, who is depraved by idleness and bad example, and keeping him in secure and compulsory idleness in the society of the most depraved people?

Source: Resurrection

It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

Source: A person

I was rich enough now—yet poor to hideous indigence: a nature the most gross, impure, depraved I ever saw, was associated with mine, and called by the law and by society a part of me.

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

They trample on virgin bashfulness with a sort of bravado, and glorying in their shame, become more audaciously lewd than men, however depraved, to whom the sexual quality has not been gratuitously granted, ever appear to be.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

And, like the cathedral trees, the lure once lived, a human soul, but in this instance it was a soul depraved, not sanctified. The Indian belief is very beautiful concerning the results of good and evil in the human body.

Source: Vancouver Legend

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