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deprave

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

蹂躏,堕落,摧残,剥夺

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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

  • No possible amount of good to ever so many can make it right to deprave ever so few; happiness and misery cannot be measured so!

  • It prevents also such instruction in the classics as must necessarily deprave the estimate of woman.

  • Power and riches were chiefly to be dreaded on account of their tendency to deprave the possessor.

  • They would corrupt the morals, debase the manners, and deprave the tastes of the young.

  • Such engagements are always dangerous; sometimes they deprave the character of the man or woman.'