Meaning & use
Deprave
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To corrupt someone morally, making them wicked or degenerate.
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Critics argued the film would deprave impressionable young viewers.
Years of unchecked power began to deprave his judgment.
A note on using this word
Root of the more familiar adjective "depraved"; the verb itself is rarer and sounds notably formal today.
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