deprave
verb (used with object)
to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
depraves
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present tense formof deprave (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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For the cessation of the exercise of reason, by no means depraves it.
From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen
Should I select something that shows how war depraves, or something that shows how it ennobles?
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
Halleck had come home in broken health, and had promised his family, with the self-contempt that depraves, not to go away again, since the change had done him no good.
From A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.—Mme. de Staël.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
She furthermore held that hereditary rule depraves the best dispositions, and produces the monsters that have horrified the world.
From The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter by Eugène Sue
