Deprave

Definition: Deprave

Deprave

Verb

1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women".

Date "deprave" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Note: Deprave \De*prave"\, noun. t. [imperative past participle Depraved; present participle verb or noun Depraving.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Deprave

Synonyms: corrupt (v), debase (v), debauch (v), demoralise (v), demoralize (v), misdirect (v), pervert (v), profane (v), vitiate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deterioration	Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Deprave

English words defined with "deprave": De-, Depraver, Depraving. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	To deprave and corrupt: technical reports of the United States Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (reference) (more book examples)
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"Deprave" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Deprave" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	73.33%	22	74,468
Noun (singular)	20%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.67%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "deprave": deprave-and-corrupt.
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Language		Translations for "deprave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtrembëroj (bevel, contort, deface, deform, distort, falsify, mutilate, skew, slant, sophisticate, travesty, warp), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), josh (attract, bewitch, charm, dangle, dazzle, decoy, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, lure away, seduce, tempt, vamp, wile). (various references)

Arabic		‏فسد الأخلاق, ‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt). (various references)

Bulgarian		развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), покварявам (corrupt, demoralize, pervert, subvert, taint). (various references)

Chinese		腐败 (Corrupt, Corrupted, Corrupting, Corruption, Depraved, Depraving). (various references)

Czech		zkazit mravnì (debauch), pokazit mravnì. (various references)

Farsi		فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Debauch, Rot, Ruin, Spoil, Taint, Vitiate), تباه کردن (Destroy, Gangrene, Vitiate). (various references)

Finnish		turmella (damage, destroy, do damage, harm, hurt, injure, mar, ruin, spoil). (various references)

French		se dépraver, corrompre (debauch). (various references)

German		verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, set off, smear, soil, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, spot, stain, taint, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck). (various references)

Greek		εξαχρειώνω (demoralize), εξαχρειώ (sensualize), διαφθείρω (corrupt, debauch, demoralize). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"שחית (corrupt, damage, debase, debauch, destroy, mangle, pervert, spoil, vitiate), ל�"רע (aggravate, harm, worsen). (various references)

Hungarian		megront (bewitch, blight, corrupt, demoralize, deteriorate, infect, pervert, pollute, seduce, to canker, to debauch, to deprave, to deteriorate, to hex, to pervert, to seduce sy, to taint, to violate, to vitiate, to voodoo, to warp, vitiate), lezülleszt (to deprave). (various references)

Indonesian		merusak (blight, botch, corrode, deflower, detrimental, dilapidate, impair, wreck). (various references)

Italian		depravare, corrompere (become corrupted, bribe, buy, corrupt, debauch, pervert, pollute, putrefy, rot, seduce, taint). (various references)

Manx		trullaghey (canker, debauch, desecrate, desecration, doctor, profane; denaturation, sexually corrupt). (various references)

Pig Latin		epraveday

Portuguese		depravar (debauch, pervert). (various references)

Romanian		deprava (debauch, degrade, demoralize), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, empoison, infect, pervert, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, suborn, taint, vitiate), altera (adulterate, alloy, alter, change, corrupt, counterfeit, distort, forge, spoil, taint). (various references)

Russian		развращать (corrupt, debauch, defile, pervert, pollute). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lišiti (abridge, cut off, deny, deprive, divest, free, rid, rob, strip). (various references)

Spanish		depravar. (various references)

Swedish		demoralisera (demoralize), fördärva moraliskt (debauch). (various references)

Turkish		baştan çıkarmak (allure, corrupt, debauch, entice, entice away, inveigle, lead astray, misguide, pervert, seduce, tempt, wile), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), ahlâkını bozmak (demoralize, taint). (various references)

Ukranian		спокушати (allure, attempt, beguile, court, debauch, decoy, entice, inveigle, lure, offend, seduce), розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, demoralize, filth, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, subvert, vitiate), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), погіршувати (adulterate, aggravate, degrade, deteriorate, disimprove, impair, worsen, worst). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	corrumpam, corrumpantur, corrumpas, corrumpet, corrumpetur, corrumpit, corrumpitur, corrumpunt, corruperat, corruperunt, corrupimus, corrupit, corrupta, corruptae, corruptam, corruptaque, corrupti, corrupto, corruptorum, corruptum, corruptus, depravant, depravare, depravat, depravatum, depravatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "deprave": depraved, depravedly, depravedness, depravednesses, depravement, depravements, depraver, depravers, depraves. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Deprave" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depare, deprize, derpive, Durava, reprave. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "deprave" (pronounced dēprā"v)
3	-r ā" v	brave, crave, engrave, grave, rave.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pervade, repaved.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-p-r-v"
	-1 letter: evader, pardee, pareve, paveed, reaped, reaved, repave.
	-2 letters: deave, drape, drave, eared, eaved, evade, padre, pared, parve, paved, paver, perea, preed, raped, raved, reave.
	-3 letters: aped, aper, aver, dare, dear, deep, deer, dere, deva, dree, eave, ever, pard, pare, pave, pear, peed, peer, pree, rape, rave, read, reap, rede, reed, veep, veer, vera.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-p-r-v"
	+1 letter: depraved, depraver, depraves, pervaded, pervader, pervades, revamped.
	+2 letters: depravers, eavesdrop, overpedal, palavered, paloverde, pervaders, prevailed.
	+3 letters: depravedly, eavesdrops, evaporated, overexpand, overheaped, overlapped, overleaped, overpassed, overpedals, overplayed, overspread, paloverdes, preaverred, reapproved.
	+4 letters: apperceived, depravement, depravities, livetrapped, overexpands, overpedaled, overplaided, overplanned, overplanted, overpraised, overspreads, preadaptive, preapproved, predicative, premedieval, privateered, vituperated.
	+5 letters: depravedness, depravements, depreciative, eavesdropped, eavesdropper, overexpanded, overoperated, overpackaged, overpedaling, overpedalled, overpersuade, peradventure, perseverated, prerogatived, prevaricated, reprivatized, videographer.
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