deprave
verb (used with object)
to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
will deprave
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future tenseof deprave.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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This report gives me great pleasure, for to live in bad society will deprave the best manners, and to live in good will improve the worst.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Otherwise, the mere growth of wealth, be it ever so widely diffused, will deprave the world instead of elevating it.
From Crime and Its Causes by William Douglas Morrison
You will multiply evil-doers and the unhappy by fear, by punishment, and by remorse; you will deprave men’s consciences; you will corrupt their minds; they will have lost the polar star of their pathway.”
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
