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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To teach it depraves the one who teaches it, and the one who accepts it.
From The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Ralph Waldo Trine
It is the masters of slaves, not the slaves, who are deficient in self-rule; and slavery is doubly detestable, because it depraves the masters.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
All outlay devoted to culture, to beauty, to invigoration has dried up; all that survives is what stimulates, what depraves and befouls; frivolities, substitutes and swindles.
From The New Society by Arthur Windham
Yes, for it is demonstrated that, instead of correcting, your penitentiary system depraves; instead of ameliorating, it renders worse; instead of curing slight moral defects, it renders them incurable.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue
An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind.
From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
