Definition of deprave in English:

deprave

verb dɪˈpreɪvdəˈpreɪv

[with object]

Make (someone) immoral or wicked.
使（某人）堕落（或变坏）
this book would deprave and corrupt young children
这本书会让孩子们堕落变坏的。
Example sentencesExamples
- By contaminating the political culture with persuasive but ruinous ideas, populism depraves all electorally-sensitive governments.
- It is not news that we have depraved people among us; nor is it news that they like to taunt society with their combination of relish and indifference.
- The colonies absorbed and put into legislative form the common law test of obscenity under which material having a tendency to deprave and corrupt was suppressed.
- The law, whose stated purpose was to suppress pornography while protecting literature, retained more or less the previous definition of obscenity, as that which, taken as a whole, tended to corrupt and deprave.
- How, and why, does pornography that depraves and corrupts unwary children, and exploits women, go untrammeled through the Web?
- He stated that one may lead persons morally astray without depraving and corrupting them.
- Likewise, the English statute on obscenity specifically refers to material that tends ‘to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances to read, see or hear the matter’.
- The old phrase in English law defining obscene publications was ‘material likely to deprave and corrupt.’
- That's what liberals in the US said, so they formulated policies that were kind and good, and certainly not ones that were designed to corrupt and deprave.
- He does, though, manage finally to confess that ‘I don't think I've yet been depraved and corrupted,’ which prompts him to laugh.
- And they say that these things don't deprave or corrupt.
- On the contrary, Britain has advanced by leaps and bounds since the days when Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it might, in the judge's view, deprave and corrupt one's servants.
- What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another.
- Pornography is sometimes defined in court as material that tends to deprave and corrupt.
- But if you asked them ‘well, you've seen it and have you been depraved and corrupted by it?’
- He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’.
- The Legislature can hardly have contemplated that a book which tended to corrupt and deprave the average reader or majority of those likely to read it could be justified as being for the public good on any ground.
- He claimed that the book had depraved him, but it transpired that he had only read it because he had been asked to appear as a witness for the prosecution.
Synonyms
corrupt, lead astray, warp, subvert, pervert, debauch, debase, degrade, make degenerate, defile, sully, pollute, poison, contaminate, infect
archaic demoralize
rare vitiate

Derivatives

depravation

noun dɛprəˈveɪʃ(ə)nˌdɛprəˈveɪʃ(ə)n

They suspected before they began that sleep depravation, smoking, extra jobs and a social life all contributed to a lack of concentration.
Example sentencesExamples
- Normally, high teenage pregnancy rates are associated with areas of depravation.
- Permanently tormented by pain, the depravations of peasant life slowly take their toll on him, forcing his wife and daughter to play a more central role in caring for the family.
- He left fairly comfortable circumstances to sail 12,000 miles and suffered hardship and depravation.
- Really extreme sleep depravation brings hallucinations and difficulty speaking and moving.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'pervert the meaning or intention of something'): from Old French depraver or Latin depravare, from de- 'down, thoroughly' + pravus 'crooked, perverse'.

The first recorded sense of deprave was ‘pervert the meaning or intention of something’; it comes from Latin depravare, from de- ‘down, thoroughly’ and pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.

Rhymes

behave, brave, Cave, clave, concave, crave, Dave, engrave, enslave, fave, forgave, gave, grave, knave, lave, Maeve, misbehave, misgave, nave, outbrave, pave, rave, save, shave, shortwave, slave, stave, they've, waive, wave

Definition of deprave in US English:

deprave

verbdəˈprāvdəˈpreɪv

[with object]

Make (someone) immoral or wicked.
使（某人）堕落（或变坏）
this book would deprave and corrupt young children
这本书会让孩子们堕落变坏的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Pornography is sometimes defined in court as material that tends to deprave and corrupt.
- He claimed that the book had depraved him, but it transpired that he had only read it because he had been asked to appear as a witness for the prosecution.
- He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’.
- The Legislature can hardly have contemplated that a book which tended to corrupt and deprave the average reader or majority of those likely to read it could be justified as being for the public good on any ground.
- What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another.
- The old phrase in English law defining obscene publications was ‘material likely to deprave and corrupt.’
- The law, whose stated purpose was to suppress pornography while protecting literature, retained more or less the previous definition of obscenity, as that which, taken as a whole, tended to corrupt and deprave.
- How, and why, does pornography that depraves and corrupts unwary children, and exploits women, go untrammeled through the Web?
- On the contrary, Britain has advanced by leaps and bounds since the days when Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it might, in the judge's view, deprave and corrupt one's servants.
- The colonies absorbed and put into legislative form the common law test of obscenity under which material having a tendency to deprave and corrupt was suppressed.
- He does, though, manage finally to confess that ‘I don't think I've yet been depraved and corrupted,’ which prompts him to laugh.
- But if you asked them ‘well, you've seen it and have you been depraved and corrupted by it?’
- He stated that one may lead persons morally astray without depraving and corrupting them.
- By contaminating the political culture with persuasive but ruinous ideas, populism depraves all electorally-sensitive governments.
- Likewise, the English statute on obscenity specifically refers to material that tends ‘to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances to read, see or hear the matter’.
- That's what liberals in the US said, so they formulated policies that were kind and good, and certainly not ones that were designed to corrupt and deprave.
- And they say that these things don't deprave or corrupt.
- It is not news that we have depraved people among us; nor is it news that they like to taunt society with their combination of relish and indifference.
Synonyms
corrupt, lead astray, warp, subvert, pervert, debauch, debase, degrade, make degenerate, defile, sully, pollute, poison, contaminate, infect

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘pervert the meaning or intention of something’): from Old French depraver or Latin depravare, from de- ‘down, thoroughly’ + pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.

单词	deprave
释义	Definition of deprave in English: deprave verb dɪˈpreɪvdəˈpreɪv [with object] Make (someone) immoral or wicked. 使（某人）堕落（或变坏） this book would deprave and corrupt young children 这本书会让孩子们堕落变坏的。 Example sentencesExamples By contaminating the political culture with persuasive but ruinous ideas, populism depraves all electorally-sensitive governments. It is not news that we have depraved people among us; nor is it news that they like to taunt society with their combination of relish and indifference. The colonies absorbed and put into legislative form the common law test of obscenity under which material having a tendency to deprave and corrupt was suppressed. The law, whose stated purpose was to suppress pornography while protecting literature, retained more or less the previous definition of obscenity, as that which, taken as a whole, tended to corrupt and deprave. How, and why, does pornography that depraves and corrupts unwary children, and exploits women, go untrammeled through the Web? He stated that one may lead persons morally astray without depraving and corrupting them. Likewise, the English statute on obscenity specifically refers to material that tends ‘to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances to read, see or hear the matter’. The old phrase in English law defining obscene publications was ‘material likely to deprave and corrupt.’ That's what liberals in the US said, so they formulated policies that were kind and good, and certainly not ones that were designed to corrupt and deprave. He does, though, manage finally to confess that ‘I don't think I've yet been depraved and corrupted,’ which prompts him to laugh. And they say that these things don't deprave or corrupt. On the contrary, Britain has advanced by leaps and bounds since the days when Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it might, in the judge's view, deprave and corrupt one's servants. What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another. Pornography is sometimes defined in court as material that tends to deprave and corrupt. But if you asked them ‘well, you've seen it and have you been depraved and corrupted by it?’ He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’. The Legislature can hardly have contemplated that a book which tended to corrupt and deprave the average reader or majority of those likely to read it could be justified as being for the public good on any ground. He claimed that the book had depraved him, but it transpired that he had only read it because he had been asked to appear as a witness for the prosecution. Synonyms corrupt, lead astray, warp, subvert, pervert, debauch, debase, degrade, make degenerate, defile, sully, pollute, poison, contaminate, infect archaic demoralize rare vitiate Derivatives depravation noun dɛprəˈveɪʃ(ə)nˌdɛprəˈveɪʃ(ə)n They suspected before they began that sleep depravation, smoking, extra jobs and a social life all contributed to a lack of concentration. Example sentencesExamples Normally, high teenage pregnancy rates are associated with areas of depravation. Permanently tormented by pain, the depravations of peasant life slowly take their toll on him, forcing his wife and daughter to play a more central role in caring for the family. He left fairly comfortable circumstances to sail 12,000 miles and suffered hardship and depravation. Really extreme sleep depravation brings hallucinations and difficulty speaking and moving. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'pervert the meaning or intention of something'): from Old French depraver or Latin depravare, from de- 'down, thoroughly' + pravus 'crooked, perverse'. The first recorded sense of deprave was ‘pervert the meaning or intention of something’; it comes from Latin depravare, from de- ‘down, thoroughly’ and pravus ‘crooked, perverse’. Rhymes behave, brave, Cave, clave, concave, crave, Dave, engrave, enslave, fave, forgave, gave, grave, knave, lave, Maeve, misbehave, misgave, nave, outbrave, pave, rave, save, shave, shortwave, slave, stave, they've, waive, wave Definition of deprave in US English: deprave verbdəˈprāvdəˈpreɪv [with object] Make (someone) immoral or wicked. 使（某人）堕落（或变坏） this book would deprave and corrupt young children 这本书会让孩子们堕落变坏的。 Example sentencesExamples Pornography is sometimes defined in court as material that tends to deprave and corrupt. He claimed that the book had depraved him, but it transpired that he had only read it because he had been asked to appear as a witness for the prosecution. He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’. The Legislature can hardly have contemplated that a book which tended to corrupt and deprave the average reader or majority of those likely to read it could be justified as being for the public good on any ground. What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another. The old phrase in English law defining obscene publications was ‘material likely to deprave and corrupt.’ The law, whose stated purpose was to suppress pornography while protecting literature, retained more or less the previous definition of obscenity, as that which, taken as a whole, tended to corrupt and deprave. How, and why, does pornography that depraves and corrupts unwary children, and exploits women, go untrammeled through the Web? On the contrary, Britain has advanced by leaps and bounds since the days when Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it might, in the judge's view, deprave and corrupt one's servants. The colonies absorbed and put into legislative form the common law test of obscenity under which material having a tendency to deprave and corrupt was suppressed. He does, though, manage finally to confess that ‘I don't think I've yet been depraved and corrupted,’ which prompts him to laugh. But if you asked them ‘well, you've seen it and have you been depraved and corrupted by it?’ He stated that one may lead persons morally astray without depraving and corrupting them. By contaminating the political culture with persuasive but ruinous ideas, populism depraves all electorally-sensitive governments. Likewise, the English statute on obscenity specifically refers to material that tends ‘to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances to read, see or hear the matter’. That's what liberals in the US said, so they formulated policies that were kind and good, and certainly not ones that were designed to corrupt and deprave. And they say that these things don't deprave or corrupt. It is not news that we have depraved people among us; nor is it news that they like to taunt society with their combination of relish and indifference. Synonyms corrupt, lead astray, warp, subvert, pervert, debauch, debase, degrade, make degenerate, defile, sully, pollute, poison, contaminate, infect Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘pervert the meaning or intention of something’): from Old French depraver or Latin depravare, from de- ‘down, thoroughly’ + pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.
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