deprave

Meaning

  1. To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
  2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt

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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