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depravation

/dih-preyv/US // dɪˈpreɪv //UK // (dɪˈpreɪv) //

堕落,恶化,堕落的,严重性

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·praved, de·prav·ing.

    • : to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
    • : Obsolete. to defame.

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Examples

  • We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity.

  • When the Boston being abandons himself—or herself—to fashion, she suffers a depravation into something quite lurid.

  • It is a voluptuous excess in drink to the depravation of reason.

  • Now, no such depravation appears in the versions printed by Percy, Scott, and Jamieson.

  • Thus every legislation "has for its consequence at once the enslavement of society and the depravation of the legislators."

  • The depravation of manners, as savage as they were corrupt, is marked by the presence of the emperor himself.