deprave
Meaning
- To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
- To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
Synonyms
make worse
make a stroke
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɪˈpɹeɪv/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).
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