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Antonyms for deprave

Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-preyv
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈpreɪv

Definition of deprave

Origin :
  • late 14c., "corrupt, lead astray, pervert," from Old French depraver (14c.) or directly from Latin depravare "distort, disfigure;" figuratively "to pervert, seduce, corrupt," from de- "completely" (see de-) + pravus "crooked." Related: Depraved; depraving.
  • verb corrupt, lead astray
Example sentences :
  • Crowd bad men and women together, and they corrupt and deprave each other.
  • Extract from : « Cast Adrift » by T. S. Arthur
  • They alter, they force, they deprave the meaning of three or four words, and all is done.
  • Extract from : « What Is Free Trade? » by Frdrick Bastiat
  • Success and unquestioned dominion far more often deprave and distort than ennoble and purify the moral nature of man.
  • Extract from : « Theodoric the Goth » by Thomas Hodgkin
  • It is painful to observe the almost inevitable tendency of power to deprave the soul.
  • Extract from : « The Empire of Russia » by John S. C. Abbott
  • Power and riches were chiefly to be dreaded on account of their tendency to deprave the possessor.
  • Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • Otherwise, the mere growth of wealth, be it ever so widely diffused, will deprave the world instead of elevating it.
  • Extract from : « Crime and Its Causes » by William Douglas Morrison
  • This diathesis is produced by those agencies which deprave the blood and waste vitality.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 » by Various
  • It was not in the power of adulation to turn such a head, or deprave such a heart, as Addison's.
  • Extract from : « Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • No possible amount of good to ever so many can make it right to deprave ever so few; happiness and misery cannot be measured so!
  • Extract from : « The Minister's Wooing » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • After having wounded and outraged nearly every feeling of this young creatures nature, they began to deprave her systematically.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. » by Catherine II, Empress of Russia

Synonyms for deprave

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