deprave
verb (used with object)
to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
have depraved
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present perfectof deprave.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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You have not stifled a single passion nor averted a single danger: you have depraved the passions by starving them, and broken down all the defences which so effectively protect children brought up in freedom.
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
You have depraved the earth, perverted the Word, prostituted justice.
From Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac
It is we who have depraved them by associating them with excesses which are repugnant to their delicacy.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
In the meantime he has been an economic loss to his many employers, and his experience may have depraved his character.
From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Walter Dill Scott
We must remember that it leaves untouched the question, what restrictions may be necessary for men who have depraved and debased their own appetites, until innocent indulgence does reach the heart and pervert it.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
