deprave
verb (used with object)
to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
depravation
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a word derived from
deprave.
Example Sentences
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One report says that sleep depravation costs the UK up to £40bn a year in lost productivity.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
The new lawsuit against Baldwin, though filed in California, relies on provisions of New Mexico state law regarding the depravation of benefits, also known as “loss of consortium.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
Wallenda, who has made successful walks across Niagara Falls and above Times Square, said he has been training with an oxygen depravation mask to mirror the conditions above the volcano.
From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2020
“They will promote luxury, idleness, and expence, and a general depravation of manners,” Cato had predicted.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
I suspect, in fact, that the inveterate practice of the primitive age of reading the place after the following strange fashion,—ὁ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, was what led to this depravation of the text.
From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon
