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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPRAVE, v.t. [L. Crooked, perverse, wicked.]
1. To make bad or worse; to impair good qualities; to make bad qualities worse; to vitiate; to corrupt; as, to deprave manners, morals, government, laws; to deprave the heart, mind, will, understanding, taste, principles, etc.
2. To defame; to vilify.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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, deprave, misdirect]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (depraved; depraving) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French depraver, from Latin depravare to pervert, from de- + pravus crooked, bad Date: 14th century 1. archaic to speak ill of ; malign 2. to make bad ; corrupt; especially to corrupt morally Synonyms: see debase • depravation noun • depravement noun • depraver noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. pervert or corrupt, esp. morally. Derivatives: depravation n. Etymology: ME f. OF depraver or L depravare (as DE-, pravare f. pravus crooked)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Deprave De*prave", n. t. [imp. & p. p. Depraved; 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.] And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. --Piers Plowman. 2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. --Spenser. Syn: To corrupt; vitiate; contaminate; pollute.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(depraves, depraving, depraved) Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil. (FORMAL) ...material likely to deprave or corrupt those who see it. = corrupt VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Vitiate, corrupt, contaminate, pollute, demoralize, make bad.

Moby Thesaurus

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