MEANING
To corrupt someone's character or conduct in a morally harmful way.
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Words that belong together
- deprave a person
- depraved conduct
On the page
He believed the secret society existed to deprave its recruits.
The narrator accused wealth of depraving the family long before the murders.
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Word forms
- Base
- deprave
- Past tense
- depraved
- Past participle
- depraved
- Present participle
- depraving
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deprave
- Present continuous
- am/is/are depraving
- Present perfect
- have/has depraved
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been depraving
- Past
- depraved
- Past continuous
- was/were depraving
- Past perfect
- had depraved
- Past perfect continuous
- had been depraving
- Future
- will deprave
- Future continuous
- will be depraving
- Future perfect
- will have depraved
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been depraving
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: deprave; depraves; depraved; depraved; depraving Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: depraves.
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