| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| deprave |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·prave |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -pr v |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: de·praved, de·prav·ing, de·praves
To debase, especially morally; corrupt. See synonyms at corrupt. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English depraven, to corrupt, from Old French depraver, from Latin d prvre : d-, de- + prvus, crooked. | | OTHER FORMS: | dep ra·vation ( d pr -vshn) —NOUN
de·praver —NOUN
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