depraving
Meaning of depraving
- make (someone) immoral or wicked.
this book would deprave and corrupt young children
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’.
Information about depraving
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of depraving
de-prav-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- depraving is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
depraving synonyms
Meaning cause to become morally depraved:
Meaning make abnormal or strange; distort:
Meaning undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution):
Meaning lead (someone) away from what is considered natural or acceptable:
Meaning seduce (a woman):
Meaning reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade:
Meaning treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect:
Meaning damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil:
Meaning damage the purity or integrity of:
Meaning defile or corrupt:
Meaning administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally:
Meaning make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance:
Meaning affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism:
Meaning cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope:
Meaning spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of:
depraving antonyms
Meaning remove contaminants from:
Anagrams of depraving
Words that rhyme with depraving
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