different between depraved vs deprave

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?vd/

Verb

depraved

1. simple past tense and past participle of deprave

Adjective

depraved (comparative more depraved, superlative most depraved)

1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
2. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
   • 1916, Veterinary Medicine (volume 11, page 759)

     There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

Derived terms

• depraved-heart murder
• depravedly
• depravedness

Related terms

• deprave
• depravity

Translations

Anagrams

• pervaded

English

Etymology

From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin d?pr?v?re (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Verb

deprave (third-person singular simple present depraves, present participle depraving, simple past and past participle depraved)

1. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
2. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt

Related terms

• depravation
• depraved
• depravedness
• depravity

Translations

Further reading

• deprave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deprave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deprave at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pervade, repaved

Spanish

Verb

deprave

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of depravar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of depravar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of depravar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of depravar.