deprave
verb (used with object)
to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
has depraved
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present perfectof deprave (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Samuel says, that by the substitution, Pope has "depraved his poem"—inasmuch as he has given to Cibber the "old books, the cold pedantry and sluggish pertinacity of Theobald."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
